La Grita (river)
La Grita is a river that partly runs along the Colombian-Venezuelan border. A 1919 source noted that there was a very promising copper mine on the river, at Seporuco, but that it was at such high altitude that it could not be developed.[1] It was navigable from the port of Guamas by boats and canoes.[2]
The towns of La Grita and La Fria are on the river.[3] The towns of Boca de Grita, Venezuela, and Puerto Santander, Colombia, are at the mouth of La Grita River, where it flows into the Zulia River.[3][4][5]
In 1888 a railroad line was built between La Fria and El Brazo, and an international bridge was built in 1926.[3] In 1926 plans to extend the Tachira Railway from Oropé Station to the river were noted.[6]
Parque El Pinar overlooks the river.[7]
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- ^ Latin-American Year Book for Investors and Merchants for 1919. Criterion Newspaper Syndicate. 1919. p. 539.
- ^ Briceño, Pedro Sicard (1922). "Geografia militar de Colombia". E. M. G.
- ^ a b c "Railways of South America". United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 1927. p. 351.
- ^ Mosquera, Tomás Cipriano (1853). "Memoir on the Physical and Political Geography of New Granada". T. Dwight.
- ^ Parra, Juan Jones (1957). "Pocket Atlas of Venezuela". Litografia Miangolarra Hnos. – via Google Books.
- ^ "Agriculture, Industry and Commerce". Monthly Bulletin of the Pan American Union. 59. Pan-American Union: 67–78. 1926.
- ^ Bauman, Janice (1987). Guide to Venezuela. E. Armitano. ISBN 9789802160228.