Delta Amacuro

Delta Amacuro
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Basic data
Country	Venezuela
Capital	Tucupita
surface	40,200 km²
Residents	197,200 (2017)
density	4.9 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	VE-Y
politics
governor	Lizeta Hernández
Political party	United Socialist Party of Venezuela

Coordinates: 8 ° 52 ′  N , 61 ° 31 ′  W

Delta Amacuro is a state in Venezuela ; it is located in the northeast of the country. Its capital is Tucupita . Here the Orinoco flows into the Atlantic. The island of Trinidad lies off its coast . The average temperature is 26.7 ° C. The amount of precipitation is between 900 and 2,500 mm per year. The state governor has been Lizeta Hernández (PSUV) since 2008. Their term of office is four years.

population

The Warao are the traditional inhabitants of this region. They have their own language, Warao . For decades, more and more immigrants, especially criollos who work in the oil sector or in tourism and fishing, as well as immigrants from Guyana have settled in the Delta Amacuro. In Tucupita and Pedernales mainly non-Waraos now live.

history

The Warao lived in this region long before the Europeans arrived. Due to their inaccessible location, they were able to live relatively independently for a long time.

On October 1st, 1498, Christopher Columbus reached the coast of the Orinoco Delta during his third voyage to America. Soon the region became the gateway to Guiana. Diego de Ordaz explored the area in June 1531 when he started his expedition through the Orinoco with several ships. Antonio Berrío traveled here in the eighties of the sixteenth century. Fernando de Berrío , the son of Antonio Berríos, also traveled through this region on his search for El Dorado. Walter Raleigh sailed here in 1594, 1595 and finally 1616.

Walter Raleigh has been to the Delta region three times

A Spanish fortress in the municipality of Casacoima

The delta was part of the province of New Andalusia in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . Alexander von Humboldt wrote that at the end of the eighteenth century the Waraos were the only original Americans who were completely free in New Andalusia. He said that in Venezuela it is assumed that around 6,000 to 7,000 waraos lived on the delta. In his estimation, however, the number was lower.

When Venezuela gained independence, the area became part of the Province of Guiana.

Delta Amacuro in 1840: Canton of Piacoa, part of the Province of Guiana

The Catholic priest Baral began setting up missions and schools in the area in the 1930s. He also studied the Warao language and wrote the first dictionary of this language.

economy

Delta Amacuro is one of the poorest regions in Venezuela. The main sources of income are fishing, livestock and the oil industry.

Administrative division

The state is made up of four districts ( Municipios ), which are further subdivided into 22 Parroquias :

district Capital Area km² Population 2001 Population 2011 location Antonio Díaz Curiapo 22,746.49 2,308 26,655 Casacoima Sierra Imataca 2,920.69 20,552 29,555 Pedernales Pedernales 2,271 6,990 6,438 Tucupita Tucupita 10,996 72,856 102,877

Delta Amacuro to Municipios Atlantic Guiana Esequiba Trinidad Bolívar Monagas Sucre Antonio Díaz Casacoima Pedernales Tucupita

Attractions

Natural sights

Curiapo

• Caño Araguaimujo.
• Caño Macareo.
• Caño Manamo.
• Guasina and Sacupana islands.
• Orinoco-Mariusa Delta National Park .
• Toro and Acoima waterfalls.

Other sights

• Fortress of San Francisco de Asís.
• Guiana locks.
• Warao settlements.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Urs Bitterli: The discovery of America (1999). P. 282
2. ↑ Journey to the equinoxes of the New Continent. Edited by Ottmar Ette. 2 volumes. Insel, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-458-16947-4