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Federal Dependencies
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first-level administrative territorial entity of Venezuela, not organized as a state
Key facts
- Country
- Venezuela
- Capital
- Gran Roque
- General president
- Delcy Rodríguez (acting)
- Total
- 342 km (132 sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Federal Dependencies of Venezuela (Spanish: Dependencias Federales de Venezuela) encompass most of Venezuela's offshore islands in the Caribbean Sea, excluding those islands that form the state of Nueva Esparta and some Caribbean coastal islands that are integrated with nearby states. These islands, with a total area of 342 square kilometres, are sparsely populated – according to the preliminary results of the 2011 Census only 2,155 people live there permanently, with another hundred from Margarita Island who live there seasonally to engage in fishing. Local government is officially under the authority of the central government in Caracas, although de facto power is often held by the heads of the sparse and somewhat isolated communities that decorate the territories.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Federal Dependencies” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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