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San Félix, Ciudad Guayana — Area Guide & Where to Stay
San Félix is the older, eastern half of Ciudad Guayana, some 133 square kilometres on the far bank of the Caroní from Puerto Ordaz.
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Where to stay in San Félix
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Rooms are the other half's business. Puerto Ordaz, west across the Caroní, took the newer building and with it most of Ciudad Guayana's hotel supply, which leaves San Félix a place to visit by day rather than an obvious base for the night. San Félix is the older ground of the pair.
Travellers here for the aluminium and steel works of Bolívar State usually sleep on the Puerto Ordaz bank and cross when they need to.
Few places to stay in San Félix — most visitors book in Puerto Ordaz nearby.
About San Félix
What are the main landmarks in San Félix?
San Félix goes without a listed landmark. Nothing in the record names a museum, a church or a monument for San Félix, which leaves the district's landmarks to geography: the Caroní on its western side and the Orinoco running past the north. Puerto Ordaz holds the newer building across the water.
What stands here is the older half of a city that grew from two.
What is the history of San Félix?
San Félix and Puerto Ordaz began as two separate towns on opposite banks of the Caroní, and their outward growth eventually ran the two together into the single city of Ciudad Guayana. A river separated them. The older of the pair is San Félix.
Heavy industry drove the merger, since aluminium and steel works exporting from the Orinoco frontage of Bolívar State pulled in the building that closed the gap.
Where is San Félix?
East of the Caroní, San Félix takes up roughly 133 square kilometres of Ciudad Guayana, with the Orinoco along its northern edge.
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What is the best area to stay in San Félix?
Puerto Ordaz: the newer western half where Ciudad Guayana's hotels sit.
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Updated August 2026