El Callao - Travel & Tourism Guide El Callao - Vénézuela

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El Callao is 18 km from Guasipati. It was built in 1864 and now has 3 000 miners, the other inhabitants live in the mine anyway. Minerven, the country's first operating company, had for years a football team registered in the first division championship. Background: in 1998, under the presidency of Caldera, a strong crisis hit the country's gold zones, and the English people who sell huge amounts of gold cut prices. The impact on El Callao is then dramatic, most mills and mines close, people are hungry… since in recent years the gold rush has calmed down, the time of the Buya! where one gram sold at 10 € is over, the government intervened with criminal laws prohibiting traffic.