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Alto Orinoco Municipality (Municipio Autónomo Alto Orinoco)

The Alto Orinoco Municipality (Municipio Alto Orinoco) is one of the seven municipalities (municipios) that make up the southern Venezuelan state of Amazonas and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 12,687. The town of La Esmeralda is the shire town of the Alto Orinoco.

After the dissolution of the Spanish Commission of Territorial Limits by order of the Crown in 1760, Iturriaga and Solano returned to Spain and presented to the Court a series of proposals to ensure Spanish control over their possessions of Orinoco and Río Negro. Out of these proposals came the decision to create separate commands. On March 17, 1767, Diez de la Fuente arrived in Esmeralda accompanied by 60 Spaniards and the caciques Wadena and Wasaha, who led a group of 3,000 natives. With this, the redevelopment of Esmeralda commenced.

The municipality is recognized as a territorial division by the government of Antonio Guzmán Blanco on December 10, 1880, of what is now the Amazonas State.

Map - Alto Orinoco Municipality (Municipio Autónomo Alto Orinoco)

Latitude / Longitude : 2° 44' 4" N / 64° 49' 49" W | Time Zone : UTC+-5:-30 | Currency : VEF | Telephone : 58

Alto Orinoco Municipality (Municipio Autónomo Alto Orinoco)

Map - Alto Orinoco Municipality (Municipio Autónomo Alto Orinoco)

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