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Orinoco Department

Field	Value
name	Orinoco Department
native_name	Departamento del Orinoco
native_name_lang	es
coordinates
image_map	Orinoco in Gran Colombia (1824).svg
established_title	Created
established_date	1824
extinct_title	Dissolved
extinct_date	1830
seat_type	capital
seat	Cumaná
population_total	175,000

Orinoco Department was one of the departments of Gran Colombia created in 1824. Its territory was split from the Venezuela Department.

It had borders to

Apure Department in the West.
Boyacá Department in the West.

Provinces

Cumaná Province. Capital: Cumaná. Cantons: Cumaná, Carupano, Cumanacoa, Maturín, Cariaco, Aragua Cumanés and Río Caribes.
Guayana Province. Capital: Angostura. Cantons: Angostura, Barceloneta, Alto Orinoco (capital Caicara), Caroni, Guayana Vieja, Caura (capital cabecera Moitaco), La Pastora and Upata.
Barcelona Province. Capital: Barcelona. Cantons: Barcelona, Aragua, Pilar, Piritu, San Diego and Villa del Pao.
Margarita Province. Capital: Asunción. Cantons: Asunción and Norte (capital Santa Ana del Norte).

References

Colombia.. (1840). "Cuerpo de leyes de la republica de Colombia, que comprende todas las leyes, decretos y resoluciones dictados por sus congresos desde el de 1821 hasta el ultimo de 1827. Reimpreso cuidadosamente por la edicion oficial de Bobotá publicada en tres volumenes. Con un indice cronológico y otro alfabético de la materia de las leyes.". Impr. de V. Espinal.

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