Punta Cardón | |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Venezuela |
Pushpin Relief: | y |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Venezuela |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Falcón |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | UTC -4:30 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 4154 |
Blank1 Name: | Climate |
Blank1 Info: | BWh |
Punta Cardón is a town and parish in the Carirubana autonomous municipality of Falcón state, Venezuela.
The town was once a poor fishing community on the Gulf of Coro on the northwest coast of Venezuela.Since the mid-1940s the community has become surrounded by the Paraguana- oil-refining complex, which today is run by PDVSA, the state oil company.The Spanish architect José Lino Vaamonde built the Club Manaure in Punta Cardón (1953) for Shell Venezuela.