Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela Travel Guide
Ciudad Guayana is a city in Bolívar State in eastern Venezuela. It has a population of around a million people. The city is on the southern bank of the Orinoco River, straddling the Caroní River. It is an important river port opening through the Orinoco Delta into the Atlantic Ocean.
Guide to Ciudad Guayana Hotels
Here's a list of hotels in Ciudad Guayana that you can book online, with full description, star rating, address, location map, evaluation, and prices as offered by different booking sites. This helps you to make your room booking with the site that offers the best price.
 Orinokia Mall Center, Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela Author: Vrtolmenz (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported)
More on Ciudad Guayana
Ciudad Guayana is relative young, have been established only in 1961 by merging two existing cities, San Félix on the eastern bank of the Caroní and Puerto Ordaz on the western bank.
The founding of Ciudad Guayana created a major industrial center in eastern Venezuela. The creation of Ciudad Guayana was in the hand of a team of planners from MIT and Harvard. Despite the best brains, the city planning has been criticised by some for its disregard to the existing social, economic, cultural and climatological need of the existing cities.
 Guri Dam, Venezuela Author: Fadi (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany)
Visiting Ciudad Guayana
Manuel Carlos Piar Guayana Airport (PZO) is the airport serving Ciudad Guayana. It receives flights from Barcelona (Venezuela), Caracas, Ciudad Bolívar, Porlamar and Valencia (Venezuela), among others.
Places of Interest in Ciudad Guayana
- Guri Dam
A massive dam that provides two thirds of Venezuela's hydroelectric needs.
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