Barima Point Explained

Pushpin Map:	Venezuela
Coordinates:	^[1]
Timezone:	VET
Utc Offset:	-4

Barima Point (Spanish; Castilian: Punta Barima), is a small settlement in the Antonio Díaz municipality of Delta Amacuro state in Venezuela, at the mouth of the Barima River.

It has a lighthouse, Faro Barima,^[2] and a Coast Guard Station.

The city was controlled by British Guiana until 1899, when it was returned to Venezuela in the Paris Arbitral Award.^[3]

Sources

• Book: King, Willard L. . Melville Weston Fuller: Chief Justice of the United States, 1888–1910. Ehrsam Press [Macmillan Publishers] . 2007 . 9781406735222 . 1950.

Notes and References

1. https://wikimapia.org/15850216/es/Punta-Barima Wikimapia
2. https://www.marinetraffic.com/fi/ais/details/lights/1000017441 Marine traffic
3. King, p.260.