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The park protects part of the Orinoco Delta swamp forests ecoregion. [6] It is located in the middle of the Orinoco River Delta, where the largest river in Venezuela meets the Atlantic Ocean. It takes the name of the island Mariusa, on the coast, but it is the Redonda Island of the greater territorial extension of land floodable, between the ...
The Orinoco Delta swamp forests (NT0147) is an ecoregion of eastern Venezuela and northern Guyana covering the large and shifting Orinoco Delta. The vegetation is mostly permanently flooded rainforest. The ecoregion is relatively intact apart from a large area that was damaged by a failed flood control program in the 1960s.
The delta is fan-shaped, formed by the Orinoco River as it splits into numerous distributaries, called caños, which meander through the delta on their way to the sea.The main distributary is called the Rio Grande, which empties south-southeast through the southern portion of the delta, and the second major distributary is Caño Manamo, which runs northward along the western edge of the delta.
Orinoco in Mariusa National Park (Delta Amacuro) Orinoco at its confluence with the Caroní River (lower left) [21] Rapids of the Orinoco, near Puerto Ayacucho airport, Venezuela Orinoco in Amazonas State, Venezuela Orinoco in Amazonas State, Venezuela. At its mouth, the Orinoco River forms a wide delta that branches off into hundreds of rivers ...
On 7 January 2021, President Maduro issued Decree No. 4,415, claiming 200 nautical miles of seabed from the Orinoco Delta for Venezuela, extending into where Guyana made oil discoveries. [17] Days later on 21 January, Guaicamacuto-class patrol boat Commandante Hugo Chavez GC 24 captured two Guyanese fishing boats within the EEZ of Guyana. [17]
The Orinoco is one of the most important rivers in the world due to its length and flow (2140 km and more than 30000 m 3 /s), [1] the extent of its basin (1 million km 2) and especially its historical importance and economic and the meaning it has had for Venezuela, where most of its basin is spread, with almost two-thirds of it.
The delta is covered mostly by mangrove swamp but there is a huge range of other flora and fauna, making it one of the world's more ecologically diverse places. Significant amounts of oil have been discovered in the western parts of the delta and there is apprehension that exploitation of this oil will cause substantial ecological damage.
The Coastal Venezuelan mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1408) covers the salt-water mangrove forests along the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean coast of Venezuela, from Cocinetas Basin (on the western border with Colombia) to the edge of the Caño Manamo River and the Orinoco Delta in the east. It is one of the largest mangrove ecoregions in ...