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Baseball

Baseball is the most popular sport in Venezuela.

The Venezuelan Professional Baseball League was established in 1945, with Leones del Caracas the leading team; another leading clubis Valencia's Navegantes del Magallanes, established in 1917. There is a Venezuelan Summer League (established in 1997) and winter league (Liga Paralela). Venezuelan teams have won the Caribbean Seriesa number of times.


Football

Football is a widely practiced and popular sport in Venezuela, although the sport has lagged behind baseball in terms of popularity.


Basketball
TheGarrote Game) or Garrote Larense, is a Venezuelan martial art that involves machete, garrote, and knife fencing.
The Liga Professional de Baloncesto is the main Venezuelan Basketball League, whichfeatures 14 teams.

The Venezuela Basketball Association controls the men's and women's basketball teams.

Coleo
A traditional Venezuelan sport is coleo. Very similar to rodeo, it involves a smallgroup of llaneros (cowboys) on horseback pursuing cattle at high speeds through a narrow pathway (called a manga de coleo) in order to drop or tumble them. Coleos are usually presented as a sideattraction to a larger event, such as a religious festival. They are very popular in the Venezuelan plains (llanos).

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The climate of Puerto Rico falls into the tropical climatic zone. Temperatures are moderate year round, averaging near 80 °F (26.7 °C) in lower elevations and 70 °F (21.1°C) in the mountains. Easterly trade winds pass across the island year round. Puerto Rico has a rainy season which stretches from April into November.[1] The mountains of the Cordillera Central are themain cause of the variations in the temperature and rainfall that occur over very short distances. The mountains can also cause wide variation in local wind speed and direction due to their...