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  2. Orinoco Delta - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Mariusa National Park - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Maduro displays Venezuela’s sea and air power near ... - AOL

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    Declaring the visit of a British warship to Guyana “an intolerable threat,” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday launched an impromptu military exercise in waters close to its ...

  5. Orinoco Delta swamp forests - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Guyana–Venezuela crisis (2023–present) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Guayana natural region - Wikipedia

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    The relief of the southern Orinoco or Guiana is very varied, plains or savannahs, with heights ranging from 100 to 500 m (330 to 1,640 ft) above sea level, including the Gran Sabana, which is a plain with an average of 1,000 m (3,300 ft) above sea level, home to the magnificent tepuis, and finally the sierras or mountain ranges that reach considerable peaks of up to 3,800 m (12,500 ft) above ...

  8. Geography of Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    Most observers describe Venezuela in terms of four fairly well-defined regions: the Maracaibo lowlands in the northwest, the northern mountains extending in a broad east–west arc from the Colombian border along the Caribbean Sea, the wide Orinoco plains in central Venezuela, and rank highly dissected Guiana highlands in the southeast.

  9. Orinoco Basin - Wikipedia

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    The Orinoco Basin is the part of South America drained by the Orinoco river and its tributaries. The Orinoco watershed covers an area of about 990000 km 2, making it the third largest in South America, covering most of Venezuela and eastern part of Colombia.

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