Houses picturesque popular  and middle class, now has an important place in society by the amount of people who integrate, for its socio-economic and especially political role and their low identification with their origins. These houses had the characteristic that the facade be very high and be located in very narrow streets, each row protected from sunlight to the ones in the front row. For its construction, the developers and builders of yore used a mix called "real mix" consisting Lake Sand, lime, crushed stone, clay, and strands of coconut shell. The ceilings were made ​​of beams Vera and Curarí or Curarire, hardness and strength of a legendary, this frame was covered with reed sticks strongly tied to each other and finally carpeted the roof thatched or tiled enea. Maracaibo. Venezuela.
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