The meridian of Villa de Cura is the geographical parameter that governed the legal time of Venezuela from its institution in 1912 to 1965, and has defined it again since December 9, 2007. It is located in the 67 ° 30 'west longitude, passing through the outskirts of the town of Villa de Cura in Aragua State, which corresponds to the just half of the Venezuelan territory.

History

The creation of the Naval Observatory Cagigal in 1888, together with the events that announced the beginning of development in the field of technology and communications, created the need to define a national legal time, so that it could be disseminated through the For this purpose, it was decided to adopt the 67 ° with a 30-minute longitude west, as it is considered an approximate average geographical point between the east and west ends of the country. The adoption of this meridian placed the national hour to four hours and thirty minutes with respect to the Meridian of Greenwich, and its determination marked the beginning of activities of the Service of Legal Time of Venezuela.

Subsequently, there were international applications suggesting an hourly determination, preferably of an hour or half full hour, which caused the national system to define a new meridian for the calculation of its legal time. By decision of the Congress of the Republic, meridian 60 of latitude west was chosen, whose was the locality of Punta Playa in the State Delta Amacuro, in the east of the country, located four hours of Greenwich. This provision began its application on 1 January 1965.

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