CARUPANO, a town and port of the State of Bermudez, Venezuela, 65m. N.E. of the city of Cumana. Pop. (1920), about II,000. Carupano is situated on the Caribbean coast on an open roadstead and is a port of call for several regular steamship lines. The country immediately behind the town is rough, but there is a considerable export of cacao, coffee, sugar, cotton, timber and rum.