"Here is the fascinating jungle ...
abysmal world where lie the ancient key.
antihuman Jungle. About transpose its boundaries
beginning to be more or less than men ... "
-Romulo Gallegos. "Canaima"
Canaima National Park (Part 1)
SUPERLATIVE TERRITORY
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We will begin to deal with a place has witnessed the geological evolution of our planet, a territory that has approximately 3 000 570 million years older than the rest of Venezuela, because he has witnessed how the country emerged from the waters and is In addition, the wonderful result and final erosion forces that have shaped, with its colossal power, a paradise of water breaks and stunning islands in time, as the English writer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock the same Holmes described in his book, THE LOST WORLD (The Lost World) by referring to the table mountains.
imagined Conan Doyle in his book, how life must have been in the table mountains, with dinosaurs wandering on the surface and dominate the skies pterodactyls. So amazing are these tepuyes that even in the twentieth century adventurer Alexander Lithuanian Laime, delirious with his fruitless search for fossils.
is that, in fact, if we look at the top of Salto El Sapo in Canaima, we see a landscape that will remind us of the famous film by Steven Spielberg, Jurassic Park. Just missing Velociraptors, Brachiosaurus and some other Tyranosaurus Rex, watching the green savannah of these landscapes.
That is explanation and we will see later. But in reality, there has been no evidence of giant dinosaurs have existed in the table mountains, even around Canaima. That is an explanation and we will see later.
| Canaima is an empire of countless waterfalls that are a prelude to the highest in the world. (Photo: Alexander Lamb B.)
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Canaima is the home and grave of many visionaries like Bernal, Laime and Anatoly; adventurers like Jimmy Angel, religious and Fray Cesareo de Armellada, Canaima of demons and legends like Makunaima. CANAIMA arm or Kanaima is open to the world, where a " WAKÜPERA "is the word of welcome from our brothers Pemón.
Canaima National Park.
This area south of our state was a mining area of \u200b\u200bgold mining and diamond, attracting the attention of adventurers from around the world, but the order reigned from June 12, 1962; Executive Decree No. 770 in Official Gazette No. 26,210, published on June 13, 1962, which states 10,000 square kilometers (1,000,000 acres) National Park, denominated " CANAIMA " then on September 9, 1975, through Decree No. 1137, Official Gazette No. 30,809, published on October 1, 1975, declaring the extension of the national park area to 30,000 square kilometers (3,000,000 hectares), which is what keeps today.
The June 15, 1991, by Executive Decree No. 1640, Official Gazette No. 34758 of July 18, 1991, regulating the use of the Eastern Sector of the park, is say, La Gran Sabana.
| In the Gran Sabana (Photo: Alexander Lamb B.) |
Important is to note that the NATIONAL PARK CANAIMA is administered in two sectors: SECTOR WEST known as Laguna de Canaima, where we find the jumps Hacha, Golondrina, El Sapo, Wadaima, Kerepacupay vein and geological mole called Auyantepuy; and EASTERN SECTOR: we know as THE GREAT SAVANNAH : is the most visited for its easy access and waterfalls are as Arapan, Kama Meru, Chinak, Kawi, Toron Kamoirán, Kako Paru, among others giants as witnesses of the Precambrian Roraima Tepuy Kukenán Wadaka -Piapara Tepuy Ivarkarima, Ptari Tepuy, just to mention the most viewed.
| Canaima Lagoon, seen from right to left the Wadaima, Axe Swallow and jumping. (Photo: Alexander Lamb B.) |
Canaima National Park , enrolled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature or English INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF NATURE (IUCN) as NATURAL HERITAGE WORLD since 1991 and approved as such by the UNESCO .
CANAIMA is a word of Pemon language, according to the Dictionary Pemón Fray Fray Cesareo de Armellada and Mariano Gutiérrez Salazar (1981): " Kanaima: hidden enemy, who attribute all pemón deaths. Sometimes they attribute magical properties, but generally refer to him as people ambushes of enemy tribes since ancient times ... "
A beautiful site, described in one word that has much power, a word that evokes respect, awe, inspiration, romance, mysticism and, contrary to what seems heavenly hop name "angel" is the BARREL DEVIL'S containing the "angel", the Kerepacupay - vein, the highest in the world, where he lost an "angel" alien when I first saw.
| These figures in one of the peaks of Auyantepuy are evidence of the relentless force of erosion of billions of years. (Photo: Alexander Lamb B.) |
reminds me of Don Ramón del Valle Inclán "These are the words evoke magic mirrors where all the images of the world .... The language of a people is the lamp of your Karma. Every word includes a cabalistic occult power ... The thought takes form in words like water into the pot "
So Canaima, a site simply spectacular. An ancient place, ancestral, spiritual, colossus, of dreams, legends and history. There is the superlative, the largest, oldest, most beautiful and in later chapters we will continue talking about how wonderful this place.
| This is one of the walls of Auyantepuy in Churúm river where show levels of erosion on the rock . (Photo: Alexander Lamb B.) |
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