VENEZUELA

VENEZUELA.

States of Venezuela.
Map and coat of arms of Falcón State.
Airmail. Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 15.04.1971.
Face value: 0.65 Venezuelan bolívar.
Printed by Litografía del Comercio, Caracas.
Printed: Offset lithography.
Print: 450,000 copies.
Size: 48 x 33 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 1867.
- Scott No. C1043.
- StampWorld No. 1886.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2145.
- Yvert et Tellier No. PA 1001.

Falcón is one of the twenty-three states that, together with the Capital District and the Federal Dependencies, make up the Republic of Venezuela. It was created in 1899. Its capital is Coro. It is located in the Central-Western Region: it is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Venezuela, the Caribbean Sea and the leeward group of the Netherlands Antilles, to the east by the Triste Gulf (Caribbean Sea), to the south by Yaracuy and Lara, and to the west with Zulia. Its area is 24,800 km² (9,600 sq mi) and its population, in 2015, 1,015,212 inhabitants. Falcón State is located in the north of the geographic region called the Corian System. To the south, it is made up of medium altitude mountain ranges configured from east to west, which in the eastern part of the state reach the Caribbean, forming maritime valleys. West from the city of Coro a coastal plain runs parallel to the Gulf of Venezuela. To the north lies one of the most characteristic geographic features of the Venezuelan coast: the Paraguana Peninsula, linked to the mainland by the isthmus of Médanos de Coro National Park.