Guaira

Guaira, LA, the port of Carácas (q.v.), on a narrow, shadeless strip of land between the mountains and the Caribbean Sea. Efforts have been made to improve the harbour by the construction of a breakwater and wharves. The average value of the imports is almost £1,000,000, and that of the exports nearly as much. Pop. (1887), with two neighbouring villages, 15,293. La Guaira is often referred to in Kingsley's Westward Ho!