Topographic Map of the city of Caracas

Ángel Jacob Jesurún, born in Curaçao to a prominent Sephardic Jewish family, emigrated to Venezuela at the age of nineteen. There, he became an entrepreneur and created a master plan for development of the city of Caracas. Jesurun was also a scholar, with a doctorate in political science. In 1890, he was appointed Venezuela’s consul to Panama, where he became a cofounder of a branch of the Alliance Israélite Universelle there.