| Official Name: | El Tigre |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Nickname: | "southern crossroads" (Español: "Encrucijada del Sur") |
| Image Map1: | Venezuela Anzoátegui location map 2.svg |
| Map Caption1: | El Tigre in Anzoátegui State, Venezuela |
| Pushpin Map: | Venezuela |
| Coordinates: | 8.8861°N -64.2611°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Venezuela |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Anzoátegui |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Simón Rodríguez |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | February 23, 1933 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Ernesto Raydan (AD) |
| Area Total Km2: | 35 |
| Elevation M: | 265 |
| Population Total: | 236.566 |
| Population As Of: | 2015 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Demonym |
| Population Blank1: | Tigrense |
| Timezone: | VET |
| Utc Offset: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 6050 |
| Area Code: | 0283 |
| Blank Name: | Climate |
| Blank Info: | Aw |
| Footnotes: | The area and population figures are for the municipality |
El Tigre is a city of Anzoategui, a state located east of Venezuela's capital city of Caracas.Located in what is called the "Guanipa Mesa", a river (Tigre) runs across the city.The average temperature is 79°F, all year around, and the annual average rainfall is 1,200mm.[1] One nearby tourist destination is the Chimire Cliffs.
El Tigre also is in full conurbation with the city of San Jose de Guanipa also known as El Tigrito, capital of the Guanipa Municipality whose population according to data from the CNE is 84,526 inhabitants. Both cities are basically one, whose population would be 291,472 inhabitants.
Since the appointment of Orinoco Belt as one of the largest reserves of oil in the world, El Tigre has become one of the most important cities in Venezuela because it is very near or on the edge of this oil belt in Anzoategui state. Thus, El Tigre currently shows an increase in the establishment of companies of services to the oil industry that is constantly growing and have also been presented innumerable construction projects for new shopping malls, business buildings or towers and other works for the significant activation of tourism.
In the 1930s a large field of light crude oil was discovered near El Tigrito by the Mene Grande Oil Company (MGO), a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corporation.[2] The Oficina No. 1 well, a wildcat well begun in 1933 and completed in 1937, established the highly productive Oficina Formation.[3] The oil discovery led to the founding of El Tigre on February 23, 1933 when Mene Grande established their offices in Campo Oficina. El Tigre quickly became a boomtown. The name "Oficina" (Office) was derived from the telegraph office in El Tigrito. Until the oil discovery, the area had been sparsely populated. By 1940 a road and an oil pipeline had been constructed to connect El Tigre with Puerto La Cruz.[2] By 1946, 512 wells had been drilled, and the region had produced 127 million barrels of oil.[3] The nearby oil company camp San Tomé was built near El Tigre as the main camp for Mene Grande.[4]
The Simón Rodríguez Municipality, according to the 2011 Venezuelan census, has a population of 194,858 inhabitants (went up from 155,178 in 2000). This amounts to 12.4% of Anzoátegui's population.
About the territorial extension of the municipality in which the city is located, it is 702 km2 and delimited by the following territories:
Northeast: borders the municipalities Pedro Maria Freites and Guanipa.South: bordering the municipality Francisco de Miranda.East: borders the municipality Guanipa.West: bordering the municipality Francisco de Miranda.Southeast: municipalities bordering Guanipa and Independencia.
The climate is of savannah and temperatures ranging between 68 °F (20 degrees C) and 96.8 °F (37 degrees C), with an average of 80.6 °F (27 degrees C) approximately.
La Voz de EL Tigre[5] it was the first radio station in amplitude modulated (AM) installed in the city, by Don Carlos Poleo, January 9, 1948.
With the development of the frequency modulation (FM) are many radio stations that have been installed, among the most representative.
El Tigre is the shire town of the Simón Rodríguez Municipality in Anzoátegui. The mayor of the Simón Rodríguez Municipality is Ernesto Raydan, elected in 2017 with 51.95% of the votes.[6]