"A person who owns your destination
is more important than the destination"
- Alexander Von Humboldt.
Bolivar State, land of superlatives (PART 2)
Last week we talked something about some geographical features that has our state of Bolivar, comment on its political division and made a brief analysis on data points that mark the border between our country and Colombia.
Our federal entity has mighty rivers like the Orinoco, Caura, Carrao, Kukenán Caroni is the same (we'll talk about this), Paragua, Aro, to name a few and little to just know.
Our Canaima National Park with its 30 thousand square kilometers (3 million hectares) divided into two sectors, the East, ie THE GREAT SAVANNAH we find the RORAIMA TEPUY , the highest with 2864 masl (meters above sea level) and Western Canaima Lagoon, where is located the highest waterfall in the world: VENA KEREPACUPAY or as known in the world, the SALTO ANGEL , with its free fall 978 mts. 
The Tepuyes are characteristic of the Southern Region of Guyana.
Towards the southwest end of our state, we NATIONAL PARK-Sarisariñama Jaua that language Yekuana means "Mountain of Dantos" . This park has 3300 square kilometers (330 hectares). There are three large depressions or potholes that disrupt the green carpet of jungle and within a unique ecosystem.
The National Park Simas Jaua Sari Sariñama southwest of our state. But the HYDROGRAPHY BOLIVAR STATE, system is characterized by the Orinoco River drainage, except for the river basin and Cuyuní Yuruari, east of the state. The our state's rivers flow, encountering rough terrain and steep slopes, allowing the existence of such force as to produce electricity, such is the case of the Caroni river, the Guri Dam, where the hydroelectric power station Simón Bolívar, which covers 800 square kilometers (80 thousand hectares). The rivers that southern state, with its fast, the sinuous course and the brown color of its waters is another of the peculiarities of this region.
Regarding the CLIMATE, is tropical savannah in the north, some authors consider it semi-arid. In central and south, there is the climate typical of tropical rain forest, "Rain Forest" , as you know on the outside, with constant humidity and rain very regular from 3000 to 4000 mm annually in the sub systems or sub-regions of high tepuyes, remember that there rivers rise.
The RELIEVE is varied as ranging from 100 m on the banks of the Orinoco to the 2864 m that is precisely on Mount Roraima, specifically at a rocky mass at the top called "MAVERICK" featuring the silhouette from a distance, like the famous vehicle.
Recall that the extreme southwest Sarisariñama depressions are coming to 350 meters deep and La Gran Sabana that this "closed", so to speak, between Luepa, leaving as the Sierra de Lema at 1800 m, to Santa Elena de Uairén which is 868 mts. altitude.
The VEGETATION is varied considering how big and diverse that it is this federal agency. It consists of varieties of grasses in the savannas north near the Rio Father and Rain Forest to the south. The Gran Sabana is a herbaceous vegetation of grasses due to the soil, ie it is not suitable for agriculture. When visiting La Gran Sabana, gives the impression of being in a giant golf course interrupted by the green savanna, sometimes, by rows of morichales the edge of the River. There are also some areas, Yuruari basin, where the grass is plentiful and good for farming, but what prevails in our state is forest.
The GEOLOGY of our state, comprising the Guayana shield, which consists of a basement of igneous rocks (magmatic rock) and metamorphic (physically and chemically altered rocks due to pressure variations, temperature and fluids that occur within Earth's crust), on which are the formations Imataca, Pastora and Roraima formation. Its origin lies in the Period Precambrian, Archean, and consequently is one of the oldest formations on earth.
Tepuy Roraima, of 2864 meters, in La Gran Sabana.
are topics still missing comment as crafts and folklore of our state, but that touch it as we get into this state of superlatives.
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