page_title: San Tomé, Venezuela
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: San Tomé, Venezuela / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Data de 1950 donada por la Mene Grande Oil Company
context_page_description: San Tomé is an oil company town, or camp, located about 8 miles northeast of the city of El Tigre, in the state of Anzoátegui in Venezuela. The town of San José de Guanipa, also called El Tigrito, lies between El Tigre and San Tomé. San Tomé lies about 60 miles north of the Orinoco River, and about 90 miles south of Puerto la Cruz and its oil refineries on the Caribbean Sea. San Tomé was originally an American planned community built in the 1930s by and for the Mene Grande Oil Company, a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corporation. Ownership of San Tomé was assumed by Petróleos de Venezuela, Sociedad Anónima after the oil industry was nationalized in 1975.
context_section_description: San Tomé is located within the eastern Venezuelan Llanos.  It is therefore situated on a flat, open, nearly barren plain; the area is often referred to as the  "Mesa de Guanipa" (Table of Guanipa).  The elevation of San Tomé is about 835 feet (255 m).  The climate is fairly steady year round with high temperatures about 88 °F (31 °C), low temperatures about 70 °F (21 °C), and steady trade winds of about 10 miles per hour (16 km/h) from the east-northeast.  Summer is a rainy season with an average of 4 inches (100 mm) to 8 inches (200 mm) of rain per month.
  The town of San Tomé is about 1 mile (1.6 km) by 3 miles (4.8 km) in extent, and it consists of two main areas. Campo Norte (North Camp) contains the regional headquarters of Petróleos de Venezuela, Sociedad Anónima (PDVSA), the country's state-owned oil and natural gas company. Homes for company staff are also in North Camp, which is also called Campo Meneven.  Campo Sur (South Camp) is a recreational area and includes workers' residences. 
  San Tomé and surrounds are served by San Tomé Airport, formally Don Edmundo Barrios Airport, located just west of the camp.  The airport connects the towns of El Tigre,  El Tigrito, and San Tomé to the rest of the country.  The San Tomé-Puerto la Cruz highway connects the town with Puerto la Cruz on the coast.  The largest city to the south is Ciudad Bolivar on the Orinoco River.
caption: The San Tomé Church, a catholic church, is located in South Camp.
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