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CHAPTER 11 .- RIO ORINOCO. RIO FATHER.

"Language is somehow, the manifestation

external spirit of the people "

-Alexander Von Humboldt.

RIO ORINOCO . FATHER RIO

Last week we talked about the main thing that has our state of Bolivar, we talked about the National Parks and Canaima Jaua Sarisariñama sector THE GREAT SAVANNAH, with its impressive tepuyes, silent witnesses to the endemic evolution of what the English writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , once called "Islands in Time" and sector Canaima Lagoon, where stands magnanimous and celestial beauty our Salto angel, or rather the vein as Kerepacupay actually called.

The ORINOCO is a mighty river of 2140 kms. length is the principal of our country, the third in South America and the fifth of the continent. Born in the Chal DELGADO CERRO to 1047 m in the Sierra Parima, in Amazonas, near the border with Brazil.

was sighted the first time, non-indigenous eyes in 1498 by COLUMBUS during his third voyage, but in reality what we saw was the delta and not River as such, perhaps never imagined that the Orinoco was there, Columbus always naive. But it was actually discovered by Vicente Yanez Pinzon, two years later, ie in the year 1500.

Wine Diego de Ordaz in 1531 and 1532, it sailed and explored beyond the confluence of the target to about 880 km, reaching the Guaviare. By the way, "If Diego de Ordaz was a English conquistador and was a genocide, as they call it now, why not change the name of Puerto Ordaz por un nombre patriota y no el del Municipio Raúl Leoni, cuyo nombre se debe al presidente progresista que gobernó entre 1964 y 1969 con el de Angostura que, francamente, nada tiene que ver el Municipio tan lejano de la antigua “Angostura”?

ALONSO GUERRA , en 1535, organizó una expedición por el rio, pero los ataques de los AGUERRIDOS ABORÍGENES fueron tan intensos que tuvieron que regresar hasta la ISLA DE CUBAGUA que fue, por cierto, asiento español después of CUMANÁ : the first city founded by colonists SPANISH IN LATIN .

In 1595, St. Thomas was founded the banks of the Orinoco, giving beginning, so, to the conquest of Guiana and river. The exploration of the giant Orinoco continued with the Jesuits and Franciscans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the latter, explorers ITURRIAGA JOSÉ, JOSÉ SOLANO JOSE DRAW and toured the Upper Orinoco.

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT and Bonpland AIMÉ made an expedition in 1800. In fact, Von Humboldt confirmed the belief that there was a connection between the river and ORINOCO AMAZONAS, through BLACK RIO, later known as the "HUMBOLDT WEG , Humboldt Road.

In 1951 he made an FRANCO-VENEZUELAN EXPEDITION to the headwaters of the river, where he unveiled the name of the Cerro Delgado Chalbaud and altitude.

The ORINOCO SUPERB , as he is known poets, was born in Amazonas and draw an arc in the sense of clockwise due to the relief caused by the Guayana Shield. This river collects and directs most of the country's rivers. Its basin reaches approximately 880 thousand square kilometers, occupying 75% of the nation's surface and 25% lies outside our territory.

On the right bank, ie south of the Orinoco flow 95 rivers, which in turn receive some 290 tributaries; by the left, ie, north, reaching 99 at 230 River tributaries. Aside from the amount streams, creeks, streams, creeks that form during the rainy season. Many authors claim that the waters of the Orinoco are formed by the junction of the rivers waters about 715 or so.

One of the main features of the Orinoco River is on its way, no how large valleys because the course of it he does almost everything about a peneplain, skirting the massif and ending on the deltaic plain.

While he has no jumps as we see in the Caroni or Carrao, if you have MANY RAUDAL that hinder navigation of certain vessels. The rapids are constant, through the confluence of the Guaviare River , until near the Rio Meta. The outcrops of the Guiana Shield, and rocky islands, above the water and the accumulation of sedimentary material or combination of both, have resulted in the formation of some 570 islands, the largest is the MOUSE a area of \u200b\u200b40 km2.

Its waters are an average flow of 18,000 cubic meters per second, up to the start of the delta. This delta is constantly expanding because of the 100 million cubic meters of sediment deposited annually River in it.