Southern General Cemetery
| Southern General Cemetery | |
|---|---|
 View of the cemetery | |
| Location |
Municipality Libertador  Caracas  Venezuela |
| Type | Cemetery |
| Opening date | 1876 |
The Southern General Cemetery[1] is the largest burial space for the city of Caracas. It was founded in 1876 by order of then President Antonio Guzmán Blanco, specifically located at the end of the main street of El Cementerio with street El Degredo in Santa Rosalia Parish, west of Municipality Libertador in the Caracas metropolitan area or metropolitan District of Caracas.
In its vicinity is a notorious shopping, especially small retailers and persons engaged in informal trade. Also located near the urbanisations El Cementerio, Los Castaños, y barrios como el 1 de mayo, Los Alpes, El León y Santa Elena. and neighborhoods as the 1 de mayo, Los Alpes, El León and Santa Elena.
His administration is the responsibility of management of Municipal Cemeteries attached to Fundacaracas, a foundation of the government of Municipality Libertador.[2] Has the support of Fundapatrimonio, municipal police in Caracas and the Institute of Cultural Heritage.
Among the known Venezuelan characters are buried there: Armando Reverón, Raimundo Andueza Palacio, Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl, Miguel Otero Silva, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Andrés Mata, Martín Tovar y Tovar, el general Ramón Centeno, Victorino Ponce, Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde, Látigo Chávez, Anacleto Clemente Bolívar, Jorge Rodríguez, Rómulo Gallegos, Argimiro Gabaldón, Fabricio Ojeda, Aquiles Nazoa, Andrés Eloy Blanco, among many others. Some have special memorials as having the Caldera Family, Firefighters Pantheon, the pantheon of President Isaías Medina Angarita or the Mausoleum of Joaquín Crespo, this last built in 1898.[3]
Véase también
Referencias
- ↑ Correo del Orinoco. "En el Cementerio General del Sur hay muertos que tienen decenas de devotos" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2013-09-08.
- ↑ "Fundacaracas: Cementerio General del Sur" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2013-09-08.
- ↑ "Activan rutas patrimoniales en el Cementerio General del Sur" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2013-09-28.