10 tourist places of Venezuela (part 1)

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6. Pico Naiguatá

The Naiguatá Peak is the highest in the Cordillera de la Costa. It is located on the border between the Miranda and Vargas states, in the central-western sector of El Ávila National Park north of the city of Caracas. Its name comes from the town of Naiguatá located on the coast of the Vargas state. It has an altitude of 2765 m and is the highest point of these two states and the second highest in the Caribbean after Pico Duarte in the Dominican Republic.

7. El Pico Bolívar

The Bolívar peak is part of a set of peaks located in the Sierra Nevada within the homonymous national park in the Cordillera de Mérida. Along with the peaks brothers: Humboldt and Bonpland form the main peaks of the Venezuelan Andes.
It receives its name in honor of the Venezuelan Liberator Simón Bolívar, and in April of the year 1951 was unveiled a bust in bronze of the Liberator on the summit of the peak, work of the painter and sculptor Marcos León Mariño.

8. Médanos de Coro National Park

The Médanos de Coro National Park is located in the Falcón state in northwestern Venezuela. Its most important area is circumscribed around the isthmus, on the road to the Paraguaná Peninsula on the north side of the city of Santa Ana de Coro. Los Médanos de Coro was declared a national park on February 6, 1974. This national park preserves the largest desert on the Caribbean coast and is the closest protected area to the Gulf of Venezuela.

9. Roraima

Roraima is the highest point of the chain of plateau tepuyes of the mountain range of Pacaraima, in South America. The peaks of the plateaus of the park are considered some of the oldest geological formations on Earth, dating back to about two billion years, in the Precambrian.

10. Angel jump

Angel Falls is located in Canaima National Park in Bolivar State. It is the highest jump in the world, fifteen times higher than Niagara Falls. The mountain from which it is born and rushes is known as "The Auyantepuy" and is a gigantic flat plateau (Tepuy).
He gained fame in 1937, after American aviator and adventurer James C. Angel (from whom he gets his name) landed on the Auyantepuy in search of supposed gold on the mountain top.

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