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| Delta of the orinoco
The Delta Amacuro State is located at the northeast
region of Venezuela and it has about 360 Kms. of coastal
line along the Atlantic Ocean. Still, the visitors that
have had contact with its natural beauties and the indigenous
populations that inhabit this region are very few. Why?
Except for about 120 Kms of usable roads for earth vehicles
around the state’s capital city called Tucupita,
its extensive highways system is of a fluvial kind,
formed by hundreds of the Orinoco River pipes and arms.
The Orinoco is the eighth longest river of the world,
the second one in the continent, after the Amazons and
the widest of the world. With a length of 2.140 kms.
and with outlets toward the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean
Sea, the Orinoco River empties about 18.000 cubic meters
per second of muddy waters into the ocean, adding about
44.5 meters of new land per year. The main tourist attraction
of this region is represented by its ecosystem, the
Waraos Indian population and the humid tropical forest.
The journey, either through the main river (Mánamo)
or through its pipes, is a wonderful experience, and
allowing the pure air coming from the shade of the jungle
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tropical humid forest shelters in its marshes the "mother
palm", as the natives denominate the Moriche Palm
from which they obtain the raw material to make handcrafts,
baskets, handbags, hammocks and balsa wood figures among
others. The best thing to do is listening to the sound
of silence in the forest at night, when they turn off
the electric plant engine, the combination of the background
music brought by the jungle breeze while watching either
the full moon or a fantastic starry sky is bewitching.
It is an unique and worthy to visit destination. There
are people that denominate this captivating landscape
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TUCUPITA
Capital of the State Delta Amacuro and of the Municipality
Tucupita, it was founded in 1848 by people originating
of Margarita island. This city experienced a great peak
starting from 1933 thanks to the oil exploitation that
stayed until beginnings of the decade of 1960. At the
present time they have settled administrative, commercial
services, sawmills and refineries of the near locations
of petroleum, for what Tucupita concentrates 76.5% of
the population of the state. It is located 110 km of the
coast on the oriental bank of the pipe Mánamo,
where it connects with the small pipe Tucupita that this
runs in address and it ends in the Atlantic. Their geographical
coordinates are 09° 03 ' 33 latitude N. and 62°
04 ' 05 longitude O. Distances to the city of Caracas,
capital of the country is of 730 km |
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