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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 origins of the Delta Amacuro Federal Territory date back to the Piacoa canton [] of the Guayana Province, which covered an area similar to the current state; The Orinoco Delta was segregated from Guyana State on 27 April 1884, and a territory called Delta Federal Territory was formed with capital in the city of Pedernales; the capital was transferred to Tucupita (founded in 1848) on 14 ...
Tucupita is hot and humid, and lies well into the delta on the Caño Manamo river (one of the two major branches of the Orinoco river delta). It is approached by a road which runs along the top of a barrier constructed in the 1960s to create dry land.
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 Belt oil sands are known to be one of the largest, behind that of the Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada. Venezuela's non-conventional oil deposits of about 1,200 billion barrels (1.9 × 10 11 m 3), found primarily in the Orinoco oil sands, are estimated to approximately equal the world's conventional oil reserves. [citation needed]