Welcome to El Tigre!
El Tigre is a city in Venezuela located in the state of Anzoátegui. It is the capital of Simón Rodríguez Municipality and it is located south in Anzoategui state, equidistant from the Orinoco River and the Caribbean Sea in the Guanipa Mesa at 295 meters of altitude, crossed by the Tigre River, with an average temperature of 79 °F and an annual average rainfall of 1,200 mm. One nearby tourist destination is the Chimire Cliffs.
El Tigre also is in full conurbation with the city of San Jose de Guanipa also known as El Tigrito, the capital of the Guanipa Municipality whose population according to data from the CNE is 84,526 inhabitants. Both cities are basically one, whose population would be 291,472 inhabitants.
Since the appointment of the Orinoco Belt as one of the largest reserves of oil in the world, El Tigre has become one of the most important cities in Venezuela because it is very near or on the edge of this oil belt in Anzoategui state. Thus, El Tigre currently shows an increase in the establishment of companies of services to the oil industry that is constantly growing and has also been presented with innumerable construction projects for new shopping malls, business buildings or towers, and other works for the significant activation of tourism.