BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA

MINISTRY OF POPULAR POWER FOR EDUCATION

EU “Dr. JUAN PABLO ROJAS PAÚL

THE EDO ANZOÁTEGUI TIGER.

THE TIGER HISTORY

GRAPH OF A TOWN
OIL.

Teacher: Student:

Belkis Reyes José Zamora

EL TIGER, FEBRUARY 2013.

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 Index

Introduction
History
Characters born in El Tigre
Sports
Sport clubs
Economy
Tourism
Education, Customs, Culture and Art
University education
Public universities
Private universities
Traditions
Local parties
Culture
Art
Media
Printed media
Television
Radio
Elected mayors
Conclusion
Annexes
Bibliography
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 Introduction

Since the naming of the Orinoco Oil Belt as one of the largest oil reserves in
the world, El Tigre has become one of the most important cities in Venezuela
because it is located very close to or on the borders of this oil belt. in the state
of Anzoátegui. In this way, El Tigre currently presents an increase in the
establishment of service companies destined for the oil industry that is
growing more and more, as well as countless construction projects have been
presented for new shopping centers, business buildings or towers and other
works destined to the significant activation of tourism.

In the following work you will be presented with everything about THE
TIGER HISTORY OF AN OIL TOWN.

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 History

Upon the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, the Guanipa table was a seat
for indigenous people. Since the beginning of the 18th century, attempts were
made to settle this area without success. On May 1, 1717, the commissioner of
the Píritu missions, Cristóbal de Molina, in a letter to the governor and captain
general José Francisco Carreño, suggested the founding of 2 Spanish towns,
on the banks of the Lithe or Tigre river in the Guanipa region. , because in this
place foreign smugglers met to trade with the Caribs and other indigenous
groups, also teaching them the use of firearms, with the harm that this brought.
In 1776, several Carib families spontaneously asked the observant Franciscans
to reduce it into a town, founding the short-lived mission of San Máximo. In
1783, the visitor Luis de Chávez y Mendoza recommended that the place be
populated, indicating that it had not been done due to the laziness of the
Cumaná ranchers. At the end of that century, the Franciscan missionaries
founded the Indian town of Santa Gertrudis de Tigre, which existed in 1797,
run by Brother Francisco Pérez del Río. During the War of Independence it
was a refuge for patriots and where the Monagas family owned herds of cattle.
In 1840, the Spanish landowner Teodoro Falcón Campos founded the El Tigre
ranch there. Between 1844 and 1846, during the government of General
Carlos Soublette, the Santa-Me de El Tigre or San Juan de Santa-Me parish
was created, with indigenous people from Chamariapa. This settlement was
destroyed and abandoned in 1859, during the Federal War. In July of that year,
General Juan Antonio Sotillo, accompanied by his sons, spoke out for the
federation and took up arms in the region, who established a permanent
guerrilla focus, with Sotillo becoming considered the second head of the
federation. At the beginning of the 20th century there were just a few ranches
scattered at the crossroads of the roads that went to Barcelona, Ciudad Bolívar
and Valle de la Pascua, in a region of extensive livestock farming. Between
1900 and 1908 there was a telegraph office there that would give the site its
name. Since 1918, the first oil exploitations began and the first geologists
settled on December 15, 1932 in the camp they called Oficina and the name
was extended to the entire group of fields...

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Plaza Bolívar El Tigre 1960El Tigre was founded given the oil importance of
the area. Its official founding date, February 23, 1933, is attributed to the start
of drilling of the first well by the Gulf Oil Company (OG-1: Gulf Office) in
the state of Anzoátegui, which burst on June 16, 1933. 1937, which served as
inspiration for the novel by Venezuelan writer Miguel Otero Silva "Oficina
No 1".

El Tigre was created as a municipality on April 26, 1939 by order of the then
Governor of the State Pedro Felipe Arreaza Calatrava and in 1948 it was
declared an ecclesiastical parish.

El Tigre Cine Plaza 1960 An interesting mix of foreign colonies coexist here,
all attracted by the benefits of its savannah climate and the oil wealth of its
subsoil; Among them we must highlight the Margariteña Colony, from the
State of Nueva Esparta, which forms the largest concentration of nationals
who gave rise to the population, the Zulians, who moved bringing with them
the oil experience of their lake to the mainland, the United States who They
were part of the businessmen, engineers, and supervisors of the oil companies
of the time, the Arab colonies, especially Syrians and Lebanese, commonly
called "Turks", the Chinese colony, the Portuguese, Spanish and Italian
colonies that have emerged from them. important of the businessmen and
merchants who formed commercial culture in the city.

The central part (Sector: Cascó Viejo) of the city is located around Bolívar
Street, Campo Oficina, the Market and the Virgen del Valle Church, patron
saint of the city that is a faithful testimony of the Margarita heritage in the
city.

New areas extended the horizon of the initial city beyond, with the
construction of Av. Francisco de Miranda (First Carrera), Vea Avenue
(popular name for the road that connects directly with San José de Guanipa
and that had a car crashed as a result of automobile recklessness and had a

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sign that said "VEA") Winston Churchill Avenue, Sectors such as Pueblo
Nuevo Norte and Sur, (Divided by Primera Carrera or Av. Francisco de
Miranda created the Reticular city where the streets are numbered
longitudinally as races and latitudinally as streets), Inavi, Pueblo Ajuro,
Hernández Parez, El Silencio, Barrió San José, Vista Hermosa, Villa Rosa,
San Miguel, La Charneca, San Antonio , Virgen Del Valle, Etc. El Tigre is
theoretically divided into two parishes, the north and the south, and whose
dividing line is the Avenidas Intercomunal, Francisco de Miranda, Avenida 5,
Avenida 5 extension and the road that leads to the Yopales, called: Edmundo
Barrios Parish ( southern zone) and Miguel Otero Silva Parish (northern zone),
also includes the rural hamlets: Boca de los Caños, Las Margaritas, Las
Piedritas, La Aventazón and las magnolias. Highlighting. That the oldest
sectors of this thriving city in the south of the Anzoátegui State: are Casco
Viejo, Boca de Los Caños, Pueblo Ajuro, El Silencio, La Charneca and
Cañoajuro.

Currently, the City almost completely occupies the north of the Simón
Rodríguez municipality and a merger process has begun with the Sister City of
San José de Guanipa, where Residential Complexes, Shopping Centers, shops
and industrial zones are aligned indistinctly between the cities and for the
visitor there is no greater difference in terms of the urban continuity of the
cities other than Welcome Announcements when going from one city to the
other.

Characters born in El Tigre

 Tarek William Saab, (1963) Venezuelan politician, lawyer and poet.

Former governor of the Anzoátegui state.
 Diosa Canales, (1987) Venezuelan actress, singer, model and star.
 Sir Augusto Ramírez, (1957 - 2012) Venezuelan musician, composer
and prominent Cuatristas. Founder of the Association of Cuatristas of
Venezuela and the Cultural Foundation "His Majesty the Four".
 Luciano D' Alessandro, (1977) Actor, model, pornstar.

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  Marineth Vegas, (1990) Model, actress, presenter, singer.

Sports

To talk about the sports history of El Tigre without mentioning Juan Facendo
and Rosa de Facendo, Gustavo Maza and Pedro Rojas Farfán would be being
petty with the sports truth of the city. They were all full-time coaches at the
glorious Briceño Méndez Club. Led by them Hipólito Bront (100 and 200 m
flat); Alberto Salazar (high jump); "Loco Alegre" Salazar (triple jump); José
Carreño (shot put); Hernie Reggie (100 and 200 m dash); Roberto Audaín
(110 meters hurdles) worthily represented the sport at the national level. El
Tigre was also the birthplace of champions in the boxing world such as José
Bonilla, Aquiles Guzmán and Jesús "Kike" Rojas, although the latter was born
in San José de Guanipa but they all lived in the Gustavo Maza Indoor Gym.
Land of men who gave their hearts to defend local colors like José
"Margariteño" Romero and William García in regional and national cycling.

Several footballers of importance to Venezuela have been born in El Tigre,

among them José "Agapo" Flores who was the first Anzoatiguense to go to a
Copa América, Jhobanny Rivero, former Vinotinto player in the era of
Richard Páez, Leonardo Morales goalkeeper of Deportivo Anzoátegui and de
la Vinotinto, Charly Ortiz forward of Deportivo Táchira, Maikol Ortiz
Midfielder of Deportivo Anzoátegui and Vinotinto U-15, Ricardo Cardoso
international player with the Portuguese National Soccer Team in the U-21
category and Rómulo Otero midfielder of Caracas FC. In baseball there have
been representatives of this land in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball
League and in the MLB. The most outstanding baseball players from this city
have been Enzo Hernández, Álex Cabrera, Orlando Trias, Giovanny Carrara,
Jean Machí and José Tábata.

The city has the Enzo Hernández baseball stadium with capacity for 5,762
spectators.

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 Clubs

 Sports Soccer: Maniceros FC

Economy

The main industry of the city is oil, from the birth of the city until the current
moment, oil has been, is and will be as long as it exists in the Orinoco Belt the
main engine of the economy, since El Tigre is located equidistantly of the
main oil extraction fields and is the seat of the most important drilling,
exploitation and production companies as well as services for the so-called
Black Gold Industry.

The Transportation Sector is also of vital importance and its impact is not only
for the city itself but also for nearby towns, which include neighboring
municipalities and nearby states, because El Tigre is the Main Crossroads
between the Coastal Mountain Region and the Region. from Guayana, and it is
still an obligatory step to go to both Ciudad Bolívar and Puerto Ordaz by land
since Trunk 16 between El Tigre and Ciudad Bolívar derives from it at the
height of La Viuda at "km 57" the road that goes towards the Orinoquia
Bridge and Ciudad Guayana.

El Tigre is one of the cities in Venezuela with the greatest commercial drive,
and this can be seen in the large number of stores selling all types of
merchandise, highlighting international franchises such as McDonald's, self-
branded chains such as Bicentenario, Macro and Unicasa, among the most
popular are the famous self-branded "Chinitos" popular mostly with Asian
owners, branches of almost all the banking institutions existing in the nation,
international-class Eurobuilding hotels to modest inns.

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Agricultural activity in the region has declined in recent decades, although
peanuts were the most prominent product in Tigrean agriculture, crops can
also be highlighted through the irrigation system using pivots that use water
from the rich subsoil and the most Common ones are pinto, melon, sorghum,
soybeans and cassava.

In 2004, the National Government installed a flavored soy milk processing

plant with the name of "Eulalia Ramos", which belongs to an ALBA
agreement where, in addition to Venezuela, the Republic of Cuba and Bolivia
participated jointly and is the first AGROINDUSTRIAL company of ALBA. ,
which does not operate.

Tourism

Plaza Bolívar El Tigre has among its tourist attractions the largest painted flag
in the world and it was the largest flag in the world until 2008, which is
painted on the silos of Aguanca, which was a peanut company that operated in
the 70s, Next to it, the spaces around it were used to make a playground full of
games, figures with motifs according to the festivity of the moment, fountains,
where many parents were able to take their children and enjoy a beautiful
public space that was recovered. The City has several squares and small
squares with green areas where the Plaza Bolívar stands out, it is one of the
largest in the country, it covers the extension of an entire block full of leafy
trees and a beautiful equestrian statue of the Liberator Simón Bolívar. In
addition to this, the Paseo de la Virgen del Valle was built under the direction
of former mayor Ernesto Paraqueima Luiggi, who also has the project of
turning the silos into the flag of such fame for the city.

 Parque la Bandera: Memorial monument of Pozo OG-1 Recently, one

of the most important shopping centers in the east of the country was
inaugurated, which is called San Remo Mall, located a few meters from
Paseo de la Virgen, which is fully air-conditioned, being Thus, the first

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 to have this system, the construction of the Unimall Shopping Center
that houses the Unicasa Automarking was also completed. Currently,
the construction of the Paseo los Pinos Shopping Center with 250 stores
is being completed. Construction of the "office number one" oil theme
park will soon be completed.

 Aside from all the new construction boom; This beautiful city is
characterized by having one of the best carnivals in the country called
"Carnavales Oro Negro de El Tigre", where all Tigrenses come out to
enjoy this great party.

 Currently, the City of El Tigre is the third in population and the second
in economic importance in the State of Anzoátegui.

Education, Customs, Culture and Art

 University Education: The city is the headquarters of different public

and private universities.

 Public universities: It has its own academic center such as:

 José Antonio Anzoátegui University Institute of Technology (IUTJAA)

Also having nuclei of the following university education centers:

 National Open University (UNA)

 Private universities:
 Gran Mariscal University of Ayacucho (UGMA)
 Monseñor Rafael Arias Blanco University Pedagogical Institute
(IUPMA)
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 Customs Local festivals: The main festival of the city is the Fiesta a la
Virgen Del Valle, a set of jubilant events that are celebrated in El Tigre,
Anzoátegui state in the month of September in honor of the city's patron
saint, La Virgen del Valle. Valley.

 Culture: The Simón Rodríguez House of Culture or Ateneo de El Tigre,

inaugurated in 1968, was inaugurated in the Old Town of El Tigre,
Simón Rodríguez Municipality of the Edo Anzoátegui. It was the first
cultural institution of its type installed in the Anzoátegui State, since its
foundation it has occupied the same building, becoming an obligatory
reference for local culture. Spelling, writing and style workshops are
held in its facilities and literature has been promoted through literary
contests and biennials. The El Tigre Children's and Youth Symphony
Orchestra began in 1979. This classical music institution from Tigre
belongs to the National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of
Venezuela. Since its founding, it has trained important musicians in the
city.

 Art: There are various art schools and academies in El Tigre, both
public and private:
 Taller Libre de Arte is a non-profit Civil Association that was created in
1964 by the painter Eduardo Latouche. Since its founding and today
where it is preserved as an interdisciplinary institution, generations of
artists have been trained

Media

 Print media The newspapers in the city of El Tigre are Diario Antorcha,
Mundo Oriental.

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  Television: There are local open-signal television channels:
 Tv Sur, was the first television station to be installed, it began its
operations transmitting its signal privately (cable), currently it also
operates in a free signal.
 Órbita TV, its signal reaches homes by cable, is part of the Órbita
Radio-TV Circuit integrated with several stations in the east of the
country.
 Torch TV
 Tigrevision Oriente

 Radio: La Voz de EL Tigre was the first Amplitude Modulated (AM)

radio station installed in the city, by Don Carlos Poleo, on January 9,
1948.

With the development of Frequency Modulation (FM), many radio stations

have been installed, among the most representative.

 Orbita 97.3 FM
 Tigress 100.1 FM
 Eclipse 90.1 FM
 Xtrema 99.7 FM

Elected mayors

1989 - 1992 José Horacio Guzmán Requena Democratic Action First mayor
elected under the elections of December 3, 1989

1992 - 1995 David Figueroa GIO Group

1995 - 1998 José Miguel Arismendi Democratic Action

1998 - 2000 José Miguel Arismendi Democratic Action Reelected. His term
does not end due to early elections in 2000.

2000 - 2004 Ángel Francisco Godoy Chávez MVR

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2004 - 2008 Ernesto Paraqueima Luiggi MVR

2008 - 2012 Carlos Hernández PSUV

Testimonials

In 1948, the Simón Rodríguez municipality was declared an ecclesiastical

parish and in 1960 it was one of the most important towns in the south of the
Anzoátegui state along with El Tigrito and San Tomé.

That story still remains in the memory of Ubaldo Quijada Ríos, a retired
former Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) worker. At 84 years old, this native
of Margarita arrived in 1946 to El Tigre, a town surrounded by rancherías.

“This was savannah and land. I remember that most of us who lived there
came from Margarita. As time went by, it became more populated.”

Although he recognizes the great progress that the city has made, Quijada
thinks that El Tigre still has a lot to grow and develop.

“It lacks organization, primarily, because an unplanned city, with public

service problems, cannot emerge.”

For 38 years and nine months, Mr. Ubaldo provided his services to the
national oil company. In that journey he shared with some of the founders
such as Cleto Quijada, another “ñero”, who crossed the sea to be a participant
in the oil boom.

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Who also experienced the impulse of crude oil was Julio Moya, an honest
worker born in Nueva Esparta and who is now 100 years old.

Although he has lost part of his vision, he retains his lucidity of mind. He
worked until he was 72 years old in the oil industry, the same one he helped
with effort.

Today, on its 77th anniversary, El Tigre continues to grow waiting to be a

great city.

Conclusion

Oil was the driving force that allowed the founding of El Tigre. This city was
born on February 23, 1933 with the drilling of the OG/1 well (Gulf Office No.
1) carried out by the defunct Gulf Oil Company.

This event served as inspiration for the writer Miguel Otero Silva for his novel
Oficina Nº 1. Story in which we can see how the immigration of foreigners

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managed to mix with the Creole culture in the creation of a new city 77 years
ago.

This is how the Americans Jully Mc Spadden and Pat Turner Carter, along
with several Venezuelans, mostly from Margarita, among them Jesús Subero,
Cleto Quijada, Cándido Zabala, Ruperto Marcano, who crossed the Guanipa
table to settle the goat on what later it would be called El Tigre.

According to journalist Alexis Caroles in his book “El Tigre, Memoirs Caroles
& Boet”, work on the OG/1 well lasted four years since Jully Mc Spadden
arrived at Mesa de Guanipa. The blowout occurred on July 16, 1937, at a
depth of 6,814 feet, with a daily production of 1,327 barrels of crude oil.

Bibliography

This information was obtained from:

www.wikipedia.com

www.buenastareas.com

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From the book EL TIGER GRAPHIC HISTORY OF AN OIL TOWN 2nd
EDITION. DECEMBER 2008

ORIGIN OF THE TIGER

Oil was the driving force that allowed the founding of El Tigre.
This city was born on February 23, 1933 with the drilling of the OG/1
well (Gulf Office No. 1) carried out by the defunct Gulf Oil Company.

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 This event served as inspiration for the writer Miguel Otero
Silva for his novel Oficina Nº 1. Story in which we can see how the
immigration of foreigners managed to mix with the Creole culture in the
creation of a new city 77 years ago.

This is how the Americans Jully Mc Spadden and Pat Turner

Carter, along with several Venezuelans, mostly from Margarita, among
them Jesús Subero, Cleto Quijada, Cándido Zabala, Ruperto Marcano,
who crossed the Guanipa table to settle the goat on what later it would
be called El Tigre.

As reflected by the journalist Alexis Caroles in his book “El

Tigre, Memoirs Caroles & Boet”, the work on the OG/1 well lasted four
years since Jully Mc Spadden arrived at the Mesa de Guanipa. The
blowout occurred on July 16, 1937, at a depth of 6,814 feet, with a daily
production of 1,327 barrels of crude oil.

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