Talk:Valencia, Carabobo
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Exceedingly POV - I heard it was a dump ;-) (trolling, pay no mind) It is very POV though. GRAHAMUK 02:34, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
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[edit] Spain/Venezuela
The external link at the bottom takes reader to a Valencia, Spain. I thought this was about Venezuela.
[edit] Please, do not dumb stuff indiscriminately!
Somebody just dumped a lot of text about the plaza monumental here that 1) was in Spanish and 2) should have belonged in a special article about that place (feria taurina). That kind of behaviour should be avoided. This is an encyclopedia and it should have the right organization! It might be that the person who added that text is a real fan of bull fighting, but he-she should mind that one cannot put indiscriminately x details about one`s hobby in a page that is actually about a city. If one is going to write an article about any place, one should take the time to structure the information in the proper way.
[edit] Know for "International and racial divsersity"??
The reason I removed this setnence is because I have a reasonable doubt that the claim in question is untrue. I've been to Velencia, I went there in July 2005, and there is no observable evidence that there is any level of diversity there that exceeds that which you would see in any other large city. Almost everyone we came into contact with seemed to be mestizo for the most part, and the only more European-looking people we saw there cloud be found in the nicer areas, such as a relatively upper class mall we shopped around at, (where you'll pay the equivalent of $70 USD for an Old Navy outfit, and about $500 USD for a PS2, no telling what they must charge for a PS3 there.), and that seems to be the case in most Latin American countries. All in all, a claim such as that is so debatable that only a reliable citation would give it the right to stay in the article.
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- All I can add at this point is that Valencia is a great city if you can appreciate how nice some of the people there are, avoid the more dangerous places (nearly everywhere), and GET OUT OF THE WAY when you see cars coming up from behind you, and not to mention there's tropical grennery everywhere, not something I am used to, so seeing that was just awesome.EnglishEfternamntalkcontribs 21:06, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 1555, eight years before 1567?
Article says: Valencia was founded by Captain Alonso Díaz Moreno on 25 March 1555 — as the locals are proud of reminding visitors, eight years before Caracas. However, Caracas was founded in 1567, that's not 8 but 12 years after. JRSP 03:33, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Population
Anyone else catch the discrepancy in the population? The body of the article says it reached 1.5 million in 2003, and the right menu says the estimated population in 2001 was 2.2 million. Unless there was a mass exodus I don't know about, these numbers are incorrect. Can anyone come up with a source to correct these? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.191.85.179 (talk) 22:07, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
