Punta Cardón

Punta Cardón is a town and parish in the Carirubana autonomous municipality of Falcón state, Venezuela.

Punta Cardón
Town
Punta Cardón
Coordinates: 11.6508°N 70.2156°W / 11.6508; -70.2156
Country	Venezuela
State	Falcón
Municipality	Carirubana
Time zone	UTC -4:30
Postal code	4154
Climate	BWh

Image of a church in the town

The town was once a poor fishing community on the Gulf of Coro on the northwest coast of Venezuela. Since the mid-1940s the community has become surrounded by the Paraguana- oil-refining complex, which today is run by PDVSA, the state oil company.^[1] The Spanish architect José Lino Vaamonde built the Club Manaure in Punta Cardón (1953) for Shell Venezuela.^[2]