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CARIACO, or SAN FELIPE DE AUSTRIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 330 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARIACO, or See also:SAN FELIPE DE See also:AUSTRIA  , a See also:town on the See also:north See also:coast of See also:Venezuela, 40 M. See also:east of the See also:city of See also:Cumana at the See also:head of the gulf bearing the same name . Pop . (1908, estimate) 7000 . It stands a See also:short distance up the See also:Cariaco See also:river and its See also:port immediately on the coast is known as Puerto See also:Sucre . The surrounding See also:district produces See also:cotton, See also:tobacco, cacao, See also:cattle and See also:fruit, and there is considerable See also:trade through Puerto Sucre, although that port has no See also:regular connexion with See also:foreign ports .

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