Place: Coro, Venezuela
Weather: Partly cloudy skies, 75/87F.
Route: From Caracas 448 km WNW on Route 1 and Route 3.
Significance: Coro is one of the oldest colonial towns in Venezuela - being founded in 1527. There are over 600 historical buildings in the town with a mixture of Spanish and Dutch architecture. Coro was the first town in South America to become independent from Spain in the early 19th century.
Website: UNESCO World Heritage Site
Images:
A building with architecture representative of Coro (from whc.unesco.org)
Iglesia de San Francisco (from whc.unesco.org)
A building with architecture representative of Coro (from whc.unesco.org)
Iglesia de San Francisco (from whc.unesco.org)
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