Delta Amacuro
Delta Amacuro is a State Venezuela; he is in the northeast of the country. The capital is Tucupita. Here ends the Orinoco in the Atlantic. Before its coastline the island of Trinidad lies. The average temperature is 26.7 ° C. The rainfall is 900-2500 mm per year. Governor of the State since 2008 Lizeta Hernández ( PSUV ). Their term of office is four years.
Population
The Warao are the traditional inhabitants in this region. They have their own language, Warao. For decades to come, more and more immigrants, mainly criollos who work in the oil sector or in tourism and fishing, as well as immigrants from Guyana. In Tucupita and Pedernales now live mainly non- Warao.
History
The Warao lived in this region long before the arrival of Europeans. They were able to live relatively independent due to the hard to reach location for a long time.
On October 1, 1498, Christopher Columbus reached the coast of Orinokodeltas during his third voyage to America. Soon the region gateway to Guyana has been. Diego de Ordaz explored the area in June 1531, when he started with several ships his expedition through the Orinoco. Antonio Berrío traveled here in the eighties of the sixteenth century. Fernando de Berrío, the son of Antonio Berríos traveled through the region also in his search of El Dorado. Walter Raleigh sailed here in the years 1594, 1595 and finally 1616.
The Delta was part of the Province of New Andalusia in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Alexander von Humboldt wrote that the Warao at the end of the eighteenth century were the only Native Americans who were quite free in New Andalusia. He said Venezuela would you believe that there were about 6,000 to 7,000 Warao on the Delta. But he thought that the number could be lower.
The area was part of the province of Guayana when Venezuela became independent.
The Catholic priest Baral started in the thirties of the twentieth century in order to establish missions and schools in this area. He also undertook the study of the Warao language and wrote the first dictionary of the language.
Economy
Delta Amacuro is one of the poorest regions of Venezuela. The main sources of income are fishing, animal husbandry and the oil industry.
Administrative divisions
The state is made up of four counties ( municipios ) together, which are further subdivided into 22 parroquias:
Attractions
Natural Attractions
- Caño Araguaimujo.
- Caño Macareo.
- Caño Manamo.
- Islands Guasina and Sacupana.
- National Park of Delta del Orinoco Mariusa.
- Waterfalls Toro and Acoima.
Other places of interest
- Fortress of San Francisco de Asís.
- Guiana locks.
- Warao settlements.
Credentials
Amazon | Anzoategui | Apure | Aragua | Barinas | Bolivar | Carabobo | Cojedes | Delta Amacuro | Dependencias Federales ( dependent islands ) | Distrito Capital (the capital district ) | Falcón | Guárico | Lara | Merida | Miranda | Monagas | Nueva Esparta | Portuguesa | Sucre | Táchira | Trujillo | Vargas | Yaracuy | Zulia
8.874687 - 61.513604Koordinaten: 9 ° N, 62 ° W
- Venezuelan State
- Delta Amacuro