Describe Venezuela

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Venezuela is full of exciting and rebellious people. The location of Venezuela is full of facts and full of colorful agriculture. Venezuela is fun and also very special country because it has the most unique types of animals. Furthermore, my ancestors were from Latin American that is why I chose this country. One of the unique things about this country times zones, also the cultural is very bright and also dangerous, also there is a name that is from a famous battle that Venezuela fought.

Have you ever wondered how one of the famous cities got named? A famous city in Venezuela is called Bolivar City. It was named after Simon Bolivar. Bolivar was in Federal army. In one of his speeches he said,”“Let us lay the cornerstone of American freedom without fear. To hesitate is to perish.” He was known as The Liberator, What that meant is that he helped tried to the country’s independences. A little background is that he actually lived the high life, he was the son of an artist. There are many places that are named after many people.
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It is called times zones. According to Merriam Webster a time zone is “A geographic region within which the same standard time is used”. In much places in the world it is the next day, but in Venezuela they are 2 hours ahead of us. If here in america it is 1:30pm over there in Venezuela it is 3:30 pm, pretty cool right! There is a time that we need to change our clock an hour ahead. This is called Daylight savings Time. According to Merriam Webster Daylight savings time is time usually one hour ahead of standard time. In the summer the U.S (except Arizona) changed their clocks an hour ahead and we lose an hour of

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