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Puerto Cabello

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Puerto Cabello , city (1990 pop. 128,825), N Venezuela, a port on the Caribbean Sea. An important Venezuelan port, it ships meat, coffee, cacao, dyewoods, and copper ores. Near the city is one of Venezuela's most modern oil and chemical plants. Strategically located, Puerto Cabello was subject to attacks by buccaneers and was a favorite market for Dutch smugglers during the colonial era. The last Spanish royalist stronghold during Venezuela's war for independence, it was captured by José Antonio Páez in 1823.

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Puerto Cabello

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Puerto Cabello, Venezuela ‘Port Hair’ from the Spanish puerto and cabello ‘hair’. According to a pleasant tradition, the name is said to be derived from the fact that the harbour's waters were so calm that a single hair was sufficient to moor a ship to the dock.

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