Ciudad Guayana is a city in the state of Bolívar in Venezuela. It is constituted by Puerto Ordaz and San Félix, two originally independent tows that have sprawled and merged into one single city. The city's economy is based on heavy industry, including huge aluminum and steel export plants.
Ciudad Guayana was founded in 1961 by merging two towns on both of the riversides of the Orinoco, San Félix and Puerto Ordaz as a single city. The (BR-174) which connects the Orinoco towns of Ciudad Bolivar and Ciudad Guayana (or Puerto Ordaz) to Brazil. Buses run this route regularly. Puerto Ordaz is Venezuela's fastest growing town and is known for some spectacular waterfall parks within the city itself. The visitor infrastructure is still young but the university has long provided a good audience for interesting restaurants and nightspots. San Felix is the colonial town but has no historic building of note and contains the poorer sections of the sprawling urban area.
The main routes are served by buses and porpuestos. Some of the main sights are only accessible by taxi.
Parque La Llovizna. A spectacularly beautiful island in the Rio Caroni with many streams and waterfalls. Parque Punta Vista. See the Rio Caroni join the Rio Orinoco Parque Loefling. A small zoo of endemic animals Parque Cachamay. Spectacular rapids of the Rio Caroni Guri Dam and Reservoir - Hydroelectricity provides some two thirds of Venezuela's energy needs, most of which comes from Guri. You can take a tour round the facilities.
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