Cristóbal Mendoza of the Republic of Venezuela. In 1813 Mendoza fled a royalist invasion and moved to Grenada, and soon after he joined Simon Bolivar's effort to liberate South America from Spanish rule. Bolivar appointed Mendoza the governor of Mérida in May 1813, and Mendoza was appointed governor of Caracas several months later. Fleeing Venezuela again in 1814 when José Tomás Boves conquered Caracas, Mendoza moved to Trinidad, where from 1819 and 1820 he was an active political writer for the "Correo del Orinoco". In 1826, Francisco de Paula Santander appointed Mendoza as Mayor of the Department of Venezuela in the empire
Bolivar, South Australia Bolivar, South Australia Bolivar is an outer northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Salisbury. The suburb was established in 1956, and was named after the "General Bolivar Hotel". This hotel had been built by Walter Walpole, a settler who had arrived in South Australia in 1850 on the sailing ship "Bolivar". Bolivar Post Office in the then rural area opened on 1 July 1905 and closed in 1930. Bolivar lies beside Barker Inlet and is bounded on the south by the Little Para River and on the east by Port Wakefield Road. The