TÁCHIRA
Geopolitical division
The entity settles down as County of the Táchira in 1856. In 1863
figure as state
Táchira. In 1867 it is annexed to the state Zulia. In 1881 it
passes to be part of the Great State of
Walk them, until in 1899 she/he is returned their state category.
It is divided in twenty-two
municipalities and thirty and new parishes.
MAP VIAL
The road of more important terrestrial communication is the
corridor main north-south, constituted
for the freeway San Cristobal-the Cold one and the troncal 5 or
highway of the Plain. Among the populations
they are counted: Abejales, New Basket, Old Basket, Columbus,
Lamb, The Piñal, Screams Her,
Lobatera, Michelena, Proclaimer, Queniquea, Blond, San Antonio,
Seboruco, Táriba, Ureña and
Umuquena.
Basic DATA
Capital
San Cristobal
Location
Region of you Walk them
Limits
North: Zulia
South: Hurry and Colombia
This: Merida and Barinas
West: Colombia
Surface
11 100 km2
Percentage of the national territory
1,21%. it is the décimasexta entity with bigger surface of the
country.
TOURISM
In San Cristobal they are the thermal waters of The Corozo, The
one Sulfurated and The Hot one,
as well as the spa The Tambo. Besides San Cristobal's Cathedral,
the church of San
John the Baptist and that of The Ángel. Very close they are the
National Parks: The Jet of the one
Indian and The Tamá. In The Cold one they are remains of the old
station of the Great Ferrocarril Táchira. In
She/he Screams her the church of Our is Mrs. of the Ángeles, of
the Sacred Spirit and the Sanctuary of
Our Mrs. of Lourdes. Here she/he is the Park National Battalion
and The Quarter note. In the
road toward Old Basket (Freedom) it is the Monument to Cristo Rey.
In Blond they are
the thermal waters The Tampaco, the spa The Tambo, the Cave of the
Saints, the church of
Sacred Bárbara, and the Parque Museo Petrolia, where the machines
can be appreciated with those
that you began the oil exploitation in the country. The Bridge is
in San Antonio of the Táchira
International Simón Bolívar that communicates with Colombia. and
The Mulera, town where she/he was born
Juan Vicente Gómez. In Ureña it is the International Bridge
Santander that also communicates
with the neighboring country of Colombia.
Geography
Geology
Their geologic history is bound to the region of you Walk them,
going back to one of the chains
older precámbricas of the world. For the movements orogénicos
that were given from
the precámbico until the tertiary, important flaws took place, as
well as risings,
sinkings and graves.
Relief
It is conformed by three types of landscapes: mountain,
characterized by a topography
sharp and irregular that occupies 64,5% of the surface;
piedemonte, of configuration less
accident victim, embraces 15%, and the alluvial plain that she
understands 20,5%. The floors you
they can summarize in plain floors and of mountain. The first ones
are of alluvial origin, they possess
high contents of nutritious and they are renovated by the constant
contribution of silts,
consequence of the one overflows of the main courses of water.
Those of mountain, in the areas of
bigger slope, they present strong intervention antrópica that has
generated problems erosivos,
and the floors in the valleys intramontanos that present bigger
fertility.
Climate
According to the classification of Köeppen, the climates exist:
tropical of height and tropical of high
mountain. The difference among the climates is product of the
presence of the Mountain range of those
Walk that acts as barrier orográfica among the slope llanera,
where the action prevails
of the equatorial calms, and the lacustrine slope, under the
action of the trade ones of the northeast. The
régime unimodal of the rain in the slope llanera possesses ranges
that vary among 1 120 mm
in the Depression of the Táchira and 4 000 mm in the half basin
of the Uribante. The régime bimodal
of the slope lacustrina it presents variations among 750 mm, in
the semi-arid regions of
San Antonio and she/he Screams Her, and 2 700 mm, in the axis The
Fría-Estación Táchira.
The temperature is related with the height: below 1 600 m.s.n.m.,
it varies among 24 and
28 ºC. In the 1 600 and 3 000 m.s.n.m. the half temperature is of
18 ºC and above the 3
000 m.s.n.m., it is inferior to 11 ºC.
Hydrography
The rivers drenan their waters toward the valleys of the lake of
Maracaibo (Táchira, Screams, Lobaterita,
Umuquema, Escalante), and of the river Orinoco (Uribante, Golden,
Quinimarí, Cold, Torbes, Navay).
The most important lagoons are: of García and The Rosebush. The
solid one mountainous Andean it provides
of rivers that generate a great potential of resources hídricos.
Vegetation
The formations go from high, medium and low forests, going by
arbustales and
herbazales, until rosetales parameros. According to Holdridge they
are present, from the forest
very dry tropical until the moor pluvial subalpino. Inside these
formations there are resources
forest as: saquisaqui, samán, mijao, apamate, cedar, ceiba,
bucare, guamo, jabillo and
yokel.
Fauna
It is represented by the limpet rabuda, only known in this state.
It is frequent the shrew
Andean and the primitive marsupial or mouse shrew of you Walk
them. The endemic birds are:
tamá chócora, poncho cabecicastaño, becasina moorland and
cockerel of the mountain. Among those
ophidian: mapanare cejuda, only well-known in the Táchira.
Mineral resources
The energy resources and miners are based on reservations of coal
and the potential hídrico. You
she/he finds energy associated to the accumulations of vapor and
underground waters. They are presented
mineral resources as: limestone, clay, phosphate, plaster, kaolin,
sand silícea, asphalt, coal,
get paid and petroleum.
Population
According to the XII General Census of Population and Housing 1990
the population is represented for
807 712 hab, what locates it in the ninth place with regard to the
national total; the density is
of 78,2 hab/km2. The biggest urban center is San Cristobal's city
that together with others
populations smaller aledañas conform the metropolitan area of the
same name, with the one
41,6% of the total estadal. They continue him in order of
importance: Blond, San Antonio of the Táchira, The
She/he screams, The Cold one, Táriba, San Juan of Columbus and
Proclaimer. To be a border state,
one of the most dynamic populational flows in Latin America
presents, since it is receiving
of immigrations coming from the Andean countries, mostly of
Colombia.
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