Universidad de Oriente

About Universidad de Oriente

According to Wikipedia, The University of Oriente , founded in 1958, is one of the most important national universities in Venezuela and the main autonomous university institution dedicated to teaching, research and development in Eastern Venezuela, which has an approximate area of 365,878 km², 40% of the entire surface of Venezuela. With the commitment to train university professionals for the industries where the world's largest accumulation of heavy and extra-heavy oil, gas, coltan, uranium, coal, gold, diamonds, bauxite and underlying rare earths are found in the Guiana Shield or, the oldest geological formation on earth. With one of the largest hydroelectric generation systems in the world. To the north with the Caribbean Sea, to the south with the Amazon Rainforest and the Guiana Shield .