Bolivar Peninsula, Texas Bolivar Peninsula, Texas Bolivar Peninsula ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Galveston County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,417 at the 2010 census. The communities of Port Bolivar, Crystal Beach, Caplen, Gilchrist, and High Island are located on Bolivar Peninsula. The peninsula was named by 1816 for Simón Bolívar, the famed South American political leader involved in the independence movements of Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and other Latin American nations. The pirates/privateers Jean Laffite and Louis-Michel Aury each used the Bolivar Peninsula as part of the pirate "kingdom" established around the Galveston Bay. The peninsula was part of
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