Sierra Nevada National Park
The Sierra Nevada is the second national park to be decreed in Venezuela. In the high Andean peaks shared by the state of Merida and the state of Barinas, thirteen large rivers are born that travel long and narrow valleys to then irrigate the vast plains of the Maracaibo basin and the basin of the plains. This capacity to produce abundant water for agriculture, industry, generation of electricity and for daily use in the homes of the region is permanently protected by the protective legal figure of the national park.