Venezuela (i/ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə/ ven-ə-zwale-ə, Spanish pronunciation: [be.neˈswela]), officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela[1] (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela [reˈpu.βlika βoliβaˈɾjana ðe βeneˈswela]), is a country on the northern coast of South America. Venezuela’s territory covers around 916,445 square kilometres (353,841 sq mi) with an estimated population of 29,105,632. Venezuela is considered a state with extremely high biodiversity, with habitats ranging from the Andes mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rainforest in the south, via extensivellanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.
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RORAIMA—THE SHELTER OF THE DINOSAURS
The contour of the Earth’s crust is the geological memory of the planet in terms of content. And orography is what systematizes the features of this physiognomy, as old as the world, according to …
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Every semi-intelligent participant in the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” will apparently assume that the highest waterfall in the world–Salto Angel in Spanish, Angel Falls in English–is named after the celestial …
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