Correo del Orinoco

This article is about the original 19th century newspaper. For the newspaper launched in 2009, see Correo del Orinoco (2009).

Correo del Orinoco

Type	Weekly newspaper
Founded	27 June 1818
Language	Spanish
Ceased publication	27 March 1822

Correo del Orinoco's first edition

Correo del Orinoco (the Orinoco Post) was a Venezuelan newspaper created by Simón Bolívar. As such, it is the oldest sovereign newspaper on the Latin American continent and South America. The weekly paper was published from 1818 to 1822 in Angostura, a city on the river Orinoco which has since been renamed Ciudad Bolívar.

The newspaper's name is currently exclusively used by the Correo del Orinoco newspaper produced by the Government of Venezuela.

See also

• List of newspapers in Venezuela

External links

• Pages from the newspaper at Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes