Animals and plants in Venezuela Many species of animals and plants live in Venezuela. The country is one of the 17 countries in the world, in which together 70 percent of all species in the world can be found. One calls the megadiversity country. The many different landscapes such as coasts, deserts, mountains, rivers and […]
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How do you live in Venezuela? Are there “typical” Venezuelans? Probably just as little as there are typical Germans, but some things can then perhaps be generalized. For example, getting up early in Venezuela. School and work start early and by 7 a.m. everyone is often out of the house. By the way, at 6 […]
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The Inca lost city of Machu Picchu is one of many big dreams for many. Embraced by the steep mountains, the wonder leaves the much-seen tourist easily speechless. The pictures do not do justice to Machu Picchu. When the ancient Inca city appears in the morning in the midst of the fog, the visible cannot […]
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The “Tierra firme” (mainland), that is the Venezuelan continental area, was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1498. The following year it was explored by Ojeda and the Florentine Amerigo Vespucci, who disembarking on the coast of the Maracaibo lagoon, discovered a village indigenous built on stilts and, in memory of the Venetian lagoon city, it […]
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The coast of Uruguay, discovered by the Spaniard Juan Diaz de Solis in 1516, was then by Caboto in 1537 equipped with a first fort in Rio San Salvador; but the Spanish occupation followed methodically only in the 17th and 18th centuries. In previous years Spain and Portugal were always engaged in disputes over the […]
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In 1498, for the first time, an Italian observed from the deck of a ship the wild and forested coasts of new lands, which descended with mountain groups into the Atlantic ocean. It was thus an Italian who discovered the coast of Guyana in South America, in an expedition nominally commanded, however, by the Spaniard […]
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It is difficult to historically reconstruct the origin of the Inca kingdom. With this title the ancient Peruvians called their kings and the main royals with divine attributes, that is “Sons of the Sun”. According to traditional history, four brothers of the “Ayares” tribes of the Quecha Indians, inhabitants in the Paccaritampu area (about 8 […]
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The first Spanish expedition, commanded by Aleixo Garcia, landed in Paraguay in 1521. The first approaches with the Indians were disastrous; Garcia was killed and the expedition left the country. In 1536 another Spaniard arrived in the territory, Juan de Ayolas; here he built the fort called “Corpus Christi”. Just his victory over the Lambarè […]
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In 1498, for the first time, an Italian observed from the deck of a ship the wild and forested coasts of new lands, which descended with mountain groups into the Atlantic ocean. It was thus an Italian who discovered the coast of Guyana in South America, in an expedition nominally commanded, however, by the Spaniard […]
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Ecuador, so called because it is crossed by the Equator, is actually a country with a mild, almost spring temperature. Its first inhabitants were very quiet people, who dealt with agriculture and breeding. According to legend, these first peoples were the Quitu, who, around the year 950 AD, were submerged by the Caras or Scyri, […]
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