Word: caroni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the overburdened major cities. The once-somnolent town of Valencia, 100 miles west of Caracas, is now a booming industrial city of 220,000 population with plenty of job opportunities and no slums to speak of. A second new industrial complex is going up along the Orinoco and Caroni Rivers in eastern Venezuela. Chile also hopes to spread job opportunities by building two new industrial centers out in farm provinces...
...Joint Center will also award two Venezuelan Doctoral Research Fellowships for the academic year 1962-63. Holders of these grants, open to all graduate students at Harvard and M.I.T., will write a dissertation relating to the development of the Orinoco-Caroni region of Southern Venezuela and its new city, Santo Tome de Guayana. For this purpose they will receive a stipend of $5,500 plus travel and cost of living allowances while residing in Venezuela...
...project will analyze the Guayana region at the Caroni and Orinoco Rivers, an area of rich resources. The new city, to be called Santo Tomas de Guayana, is epected to be ready for a population...
Already, substantial industrial development has started, including a recently completed dam on the Caroni River, a government-owned steel mill, and railroad installations which bring iron ore down the Orinoco...