State Bolívar


If what we like is the adventure tourism we will go toward the south road to the Canaima State Bol�var we find one of the best gift that the nature gave to Venezuela.

Their rivers are very mighty, as the Orinoco, Caron�, Aro, Caura, Ventuari. The waters of the Caron� are dammed in the Guri to produce electric power.

In their hills and mountains there is a great mineral wealth as the iron, bauxite, gold and diamond

In this state one of the places is more recommended for the tourism: The Great Savanna; with their beautiful savanna plateaus, their mountains of great height that belong the mountain mass Guianese (el Macizo guayan�s) and in her we will discover the Jump �ngel (Salto �ngel) or Churum Meru in the dialect pem�n, it is the fall of higher water of the world with their 976 meters, being also considered by the National Geographic Society", the fall of higher uninterrupted water of the world with 807 meters. This jump comes off of the Auyantepuy, in the middle of National Park Canaima.(Parque Nacional Canaima) Discovered by the aviator Jimmy �ngel. This tepuy has an area 700 square kilometers and a height 2.400 meters. It is since a magic mountain we can be seeing it and in question of seconds it disappears of our view due to the cloudiness. In the afternoons their colors vary from the blue to the one lived, depending on the inclination of the sun

We also have the Jump Canaima (Salto Canaima), the Jump the Toad (Salto el Sapo), the rapids of Kamoiran (los r�pidos de Kamoiran), located in the kilometer 171 from the road to the Great Savanna (la Gran Sabana). and big and enigmatic tepuyes among those that the Roraima highlights; whose summit is plane and with the vertical walls and the Autana, Autana. located very near the frontier of Venezuela and Brazil. The Auyantepui (that means Monta�a of God and the Devil in the dialect pem�n) it is the most famous in the well-known plane mountains as Tepuy. Everything located to the southeast of the country.

We arrive to The Great Savanna (Gran Sabana) in jeep, or in light planes leaving from City Bolivar. If we make it in car we will be able to enjoy the gifts that the nature deposited in this whole area.

Leaving from City Bol�var, if we go by lorry from Caracas, we should cross the Bridge of Narrowness (el Puente Angostura), on the river Orinoco, from where they can take some beautiful photo of the evening. We should visit their historical helmet, below we find the Museum of the Mail of the Orinoco (Museo del Correo del Orinoco) where The Mail of the Orinoco was printed"; that was the organ of the opinion of the Patriots in front of the world; in the year 1810. It is located in front of the river Orinoco. Ascending, to the right, we arrive at the Cathedral of City Bolivar with a fabulous architecture and a baptismal pile that it moves for their beauty. Beside the Church we find the wall where executed the General Manuel Piar the 16 October 1817; and slantingly the house that served him as prison. In their walls we find squares that narrate us this hero's historys. Also, there is a small room that served him as cell;; with a small silver cross and a yellow flower that say, she doesn't never wither. In the wall east we can see a hole for where to Piar, he communicated with the house of to the side. The women of this house gave to him of eating; and they maintained him informed of the last events of the city

To the left of the House of Piar, it is the house of the poetry, a little further on we find the Museum of Narrowness (Museo de Angostura). Place of great historical meaning for the country, since in that house, of big corridors, the 15 of February of the year 1819 the Libertador Sim�n Bol�var installs the Congress of Narrowness (Congreso de Angostura) and he reads the famous Decree of Narrowness (Decreto de Angostura); where the liberator presented a constitution projectIn the gardens of this museum, there is a majestic sandalwood tree that has more than 150 years of age. It is the only one that there is in the country

If we lean out in the balconies of the large house that has view to the river, we can see a great stone amid the river Orinoco. It is it considered, for the inhabitants of the region, as a meter of the height of the waters of the river. When the water arrives to certain mark that has the stone, it is known, without a doubt some that the river will overflow in few hours.

It is also in city Bol�var a museum of modern art The Museo Jes�s Soto with a great exhibition of the work of this magician of the cubism and of the cinetismo and of other painters; also, we find the House San Isidro, place where the Libertador Sim�n Bol�var arrived; and where find some memories of the time.

We should not forget the visit to it Dams it of the Ra�l Leoni Guri; neither to the hill Bol�var, of where the iron is taken out and that she makes so famous to the region for its mines.

In Puerto Ordaz's City we find the park Cachamay (parque Cachamai) with their majestic Jumps of the Caron� (Saltos del Caroni). To travel their beautiful walk streets. Place ideal for the meditation and the encounter with oneself. From there, toward the right of the park, we find the park Loefling where there is a small one zoological with the animals characteristic of the area.

Continuing toward saint F�lix (san F�lix) meets with the Park of the Foundations (paruqe de las fundaciones), inaugurated by President R�mulo Betancourt, in which we find samples of the different industries of the area (Ferrominera of the Orinoco, SIDOR, ALCASA; etc.)
Taking the road toward Upata strays toward the right and we arrive to the Park the Sprinkle (parque la Llovizna). One of the most beautiful parks in the city, surrounded of cascades of water white; where is the Jump the Sprinkle(Salto la Llovizna) and a series of islands with fauna of the area. With visits guided Macagua . Hydroelectric Center and Macagua II. Beautiful dam of water, which generate electricity for Venezuela and that it is also sold Colombia and soon to Brazil.

Continuing in address to Santa Elena of Uairen, we leave to Lagoon we will be, when arriving to the Km. 85, the town of the White (pueblo las Claritas), true town miner, but with few things that to see but with the Campamento Anaconda that organizes him their trip until the Great Savanna (Gran Sabana).

In the Km. 98,5 are the first surprise of the Area the Virgin's Stone (la piedra de la Virgen), natural Monument with 80 meters high. It marks the beginning of the National Park Canaima.

In the kilometer 134 the savanna will appear before its eyes; 3 million hectares that their eyes will devour. Earth of the Indian Pemones that are so kind and they will offer to be their guide.

Continue rotating in their double traction and you will arrive to the kilometer 147, I you have two options. To continue toward Kavanay�n, before, you will take; a curiara and it will navigate for the river until arriving the Jump Aponwao (Salto Aponwao). If goes to Kavanay�n you will know the mission.

When arriving to the kilometer 273 we find the Gulch of the Jasper (Quebrada del Jaspe); famous for their red color taken place by the effect of the sun of the noon and the jasper stone.

And finally the kilometer 315 will have arrived to Saint Elena of Uair�n (Santa Elena de Uair�n), the capital of the Municipality Great Savanna. From there we go to the Pauj� and then to Icabar�; in the road we will see the Tepuy Chirikayen or to bed Indian. In this area they hardly live some 300 people and you, several Jumps will find: Cathedral (Catedral), The grotto (la Gryta), The Big Box (Caj�n).

Following the route arrives to the camp Kavak to the foot of the Auyantepuy and of there to island mouse or road to Canaima and their tempting lagoon.

They can be carried out trips for the river Orinoco, and the Caron� and to arrive until the fork of the two rivers and to see the contrast of their waters the brown of the first and the black of the other.

Beside the river Orinoco and taking for Saint F�lix's road, we arrive until the state Delta Amacuro to visit the Castles of Guayana (los Castillos de Guayana). Two bunker created to defend the area of the searchers of gold that you/they went in search of the Gilding. They are the Castle of Saint Diego of Alcal� and that of Saint Francisco As�s. This served as support to defend of the attacks of pirates and buccaneers.

But it is still a lot to travel in this state, that of more surface, and because to not say it, my favorite; but that you the accent to you so that they discover for themselves because it is a blessed earth for heaven's sake.





Bibliography: Universal Almanac Navarrete 1998.

A special gratefulness to the photographer. Morella Jim�nez, to give their picture of Autana, Salto Aponwao and of the Lagoon of Canaima; for this page.

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