"Es mejor la deshonra que se ignora,
Que la honra que está puesta en la opinión de la gente "
- Miguel de Cervantes .
LA ORINOQUIA
Last week we talked on the main islands is our great river Orinoco and also describes some characteristics of coastal towns and some myths.
Since some time now, has used the word to designate Orinoquia engineering works, shops, etc. .., however I have emailed wondering what it really means ORINOQUIA .
This word evokes feelings Rio mystical by our great Father, is simply a name given to the area or geographic region of South America, which is the Orinoco River Basin , as we mentioned above, is distributed among COLOMBIA, with 34 % of the total area of \u200b\u200bthe basin and VENEZUELA who own 66% of it. 
Percentage Distribution of the Orinoco Basin between
Venezuela and Colombia
Colombian Orinoco River Guaviare.
This geographic region is unique to Venezuela and Colombia and determines the course of the Rio Orinoco in Colombia embraces the departments of Meta , GUAVIARE , GUAINIA and VICH , to name only which are traversed by the Guaviare River it joins the Orinoco in Amazonas state. We should mention that one of the geographical features of the Orinoco, is that is in the vast regions of the Venezuelan Llanos and COLOMBIAN.
Plains landscape.
Plains is a region in northern South America with one of the most important ecosystems WORLD for its diversity and unique existence certain specimens of the fauna and flora, in addition to its SAVANNA CLIMATE INTERTROPICAL . This is (the weather) the set of atmospheric conditions that are typical of a specific region during a certain period of time depending on radiation sun, rain, the Earth's axis inclination to the plane of the ecliptic, etc., all these phenomena are manifested in the strip located between the TROPIC OF CANCER and the Tropic of Capricorn, within which is located Plains.
Now we know that the Orinoco was born in Cerro Delgado Chalbaud, in Amazonas and empties into the Atlantic Ocean to the Orinoco Delta but can you imagine a Rio Orinoco, leading to a prehistoric and emerging Caribbean Sea, less than 25 million years?
When started Cenozoic Era, about 65 million years, dinosaurs were extinct, the territory of what today we call Venezuela, was almost entirely on land that just emerged or say, technically, on a new shelf and at the end of the era, and our country was the way have now and in that period of time, occurred in our country what geologists call "significant events" ... no, I do not mean political events, I refer to geological events.
We know what we were taught at school and then further in the university, a German named Mr. ALFRED WEGENER made in 1912 was a theory that the continents drift. Our planet is made, so to speak understandably, and Plate Tectonics which are in constant motion, and therefore is called CONTINENTAL DRIFT and for this reason, we owe the appearance is the Earth and the arrangement of continents, earthquakes, faults, volcanoes, etc.
scientists say the PLATE TECTONICS PACIFIC OCEAN collided with the tectonic plates SOUTH . The Pacific plate began to move below it, going on a process called subsidence SUBDUCTION , this slow process produces friction and the temperature rises slowly of the rock to melt, such pressure escapes to the surface forming volcanoes and folds such as the Andean Cordillera.
When Andes began to rise in the Mesozoic , LATE CRETACEOUS PERIOD , more than 65 million years, the territory Venezuela was under the sea, eventually, as he raised the Andean Cordillera, the waters have receded gradually to the current form, our Orinoco river empties to the north of Venezuela in what is now is the population of Urumaco to 75 km from the capital of Falcon state, Coro.
Urumaco Fossil Trace.
Well, there's so much say and so little space to write, next week will continue with this theory based on the rich fossil deposits show the existence emptying of a Orinoco River north of Venezuela.
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