# Carupano (VECUP)

**UN/LOCODE:** VECUP  
**Country:** Venezuela  
**Water Body:** Caribbean Sea; North Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Very Small  
**Harbor Type:** Coastal (Breakwater)  
**GPS:** 10.7000, -63.2500

Operated as a commercial cabotage harbour with an attached fishing wharf, Carupano serves the boats working Venezuela's eastern Caribbean coast in Sucre state. It ranks among the country's more important fishing ports alongside Cumaná, Güiria and Puerto Santo, with a tuna fleet whose catch is partly processed into frozen loins and fillets for export. As the gateway to the Paria Peninsula, the town is a regional commercial and financial centre, yet it handles no established international container or breakbulk traffic. Hinterland access runs by road toward Cumaná, with no rail link. Shippers moving containers into eastern Venezuela rely on Guanta/Puerto La Cruz or the major port of Puerto Cabello, leaving Carupano focused on fisheries and coastal supply.

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