Trips to Venezuela

TRIPS TO VENEZUELA: RIVER CAURA

The Caura is the third greater river of Venezuela with a length of about 725 km and the tributary main second of the Orinoco river. The river basin of the Caura is prote'ge'e by the greater forest reserve of Venezuela than it has a surface of 5 million hectares and was declared Natural Reserve of Forest in 1964. One is primary forests that remain virgin, in his original state.

The beauty of the rainy forest will be able to be admired and with luck to enjoy the company of toninas (dolphins of river), araguatos otters, monkeys, toucans, guacamayas and an immense variety of species of birds.

Its flora is of an impressive wealth: gigantic precious wood trees covered with lianas, innumerable palms, endemic flowers like the “mountain rose” and numerous species of orchids.
The greater attraction for the traveller of the Caura river is to arrive at the spectacular Jump For, in which the river is divided and descended in seven immense torrenteras.

During the time of rains the volume of water of Salto For surpasses to the one of the Cataracts Victory of Africa and to the one of Cataracts of Iguazú in the Brazil-Argentina border. The river basin of the Caura river is lived by the ethnic group Ye'kuana or Makiritare who in her language means “men of river”.
The campings in this zone, or can be campings themselves or houses of natives.

Other sites of interest are: the Cork, the Lioness and the Fatriquera.
In the Amazon there are two stations: the amazonian summer (of September to May) and the amazonian winter (of June to September).

Indigenous community: The Yekuana

It is also known them like Makiritare, “men of river”. Five hundred and two thousands have between thousands Yekuana and belong to the great Caribbean family.
They have about thirty establishments in the Federal Territory Amazon and the State Bolivar, concentrates along the Cuntinamo rivers, Padamo, Ventuari, Caura, Erebato and Paragua. In addition, there is a town in Brazilian territory, to the border of the Auri river, in sylvan zone.

The house is of a house for each local group that has of fifty eighty people.

They practice the cutting and the burning fire and its more important culture are the bitter yucca. The men are in charge of the most robust works, as the cutting of the conucos; the women seed and reap almost all the cultures. The harvesting is not important for them.

The basketwork is one of its traditional industries, but its greater specialty is the construction of curiaras (typical boat).
The Yekuana buries to their fragment deads of curiara. When happening a suspicious death or in case of multiple deaths, the Yekuana leaves the town.

EXCURSIONS

• Visits to Indigenous Communities (Yekuana)

• Excursion to Salto of For

• Indigenous navigation in curiara and kayak by the Caura river

• Long walk by the Forest

Luggage: Passport, clothes of cotton (shirts, long and short pants), sport chándal to sleep, 2 pairs of sport or comfortable shoes for the long walks, sun rain-cape with hood, glasses, hat, knapsack small or purse, lantern, knife of camping, canteen, solar protection, biodegradable protection against insects, soap and shampoo, prophylaxis against the malaria