Official Name: | Tapipa |
Pushpin Map: | Venezuela |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name: | Venezuela |
Subdivision Name1: | Miranda |
Subdivision Name2: | Acevedo, Venezuela |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 20 January 1784 |
Timezone: | VST |
Coordinates: | 10.2333°N -85°W |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Tapipa is a town in the state of Miranda, Venezuela, in the Venezuelan Coastal Range near the Tuy River. It was founded on 20 January 1784 as a settlement for labourers on surrounding cacao plantations. The population of Tapipa is largely Afro-Venezuelan. The 1971 census recorded 891 inhabitants.[1]