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Venezuela Overview

Make Money Online Venezuela is a country of striking natural beauty and dramatic contrasts: the snowcapped peaks of the Andes in the west; steamy Amazonian jungles in the south; the hauntingly beautiful Gran Sabana plateau, with its strange flat-topped mountains, in the east; and 1,860 miles of white-sand beaches fringed with coconut palms lining the Caribbean coast. South America's largest lake, Lake Maracaibo, and third-longest river, the Orinoco, are also here, and the country boasts the world's highest waterfall, Angel Falls. It is also home to a wide variety of exotic plants and animals, including the jaguar, ocelot, tapir, armadillo, anteater, and the longest snake in the world, the anaconda.

law, Carmelo Tuozzo founded Tuozzo Zozaya & Cia. in Caracas in 1929, it was the second chocolate company to be established in Venezuela. There they turned out perhaps the finest chocolate made in Venezuela, which they proudly named "El Rey" - the King. El Rey's premium quality chocolate couvertures are manufactured with the famed Carenero bean, a single variety cacao grown in the north central region of Venezuela and exported for use by chefs and chocolatiers around the world.

Internet Business Opportunity Full country name: Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela
Area: 355,700 square miles
Population: 23,543,000 (growth rate 1.6%)
Capital city: Caracas (pop 4,608,934)
Language: Spanish is the official language.
Government: Federal Republic
Visas: U.S. nationals, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, U.K. nationals, South Africans and most Western and Scandinavian Europeans do not require a visa if they fly directly to Venezuela. All foreigners entering Venezuela by land require a valid visa; get one before you leave for South America.
Departure Tax: The international departure tax is US$21
Time: GMT/UTC minus 4 hours (minus 5 hours in summer)
Electricity: 110V, 60 Hz
Weights & measures: Metric
Currency: Bolivar (Bs). US dollars and American Express travelers' checks are by far the most popular. Visa and MasterCard have the best coverage for both cash advances and for making payments in top-end hotels, restaurants and shops. You can change money at a bank or at a casa de cambio (authorized money-exchange office). Banks change cash and travelers' checks, but casas de cambio deal only in cash. Beware that lines for ATMs can be very long, especially the first Monday of the month, when many banks are closed, and the day before holiday weekends, when machines are often cashed-out by midmorning.

Finally, the two last teams, Venezuela and Bolivia. Historically, Venezuela is not a soccer nation, and it is more preoccupied in producing baseball players than anything else. Bolivia, for that matter, profile team but has achieved its share of successes, such as qualifying for the USA 1994 World Cup. This game was suprisingly won by Venezuela, leaving Bolivia in last place.

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