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Caripe
South America is a continent situated in the western hemisphere and, mostly, the southern hemisphere, bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean, North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. Venezuela is a country on the northern tropical Caribbean coast of South America.
Caripe is the name of a town and municipality in the mountainous north of the state of Monagas in eastern Venezuela, one of the 23 states, estados, into which Venezuela is divided. The soil of the Caripe valley is very fertile, and the climate of the area is exceptionally pleasant, a result of its altitude, much of it 1000 meters or 3000 feet and higher, its latitude about 10 degrees north, and proximity to the Caribbean Sea.
The mountains of the Cordillera de Caripe, Caripe Range, are relatively low, compared to the Andes in the west of Venezuela, with Cerro Turumiquire, sometimes spelt and presumably then pronounced as Turimiquire, the highest at 2595 meters, followed by Cerro Negro at 2430 meters. They are rounded mountains, covered with lush vegetation, like the Appalachian Mountains in the United States, the limestone scenery reminded Caripe's most famous visitor, Alexander von Humboldt, of Derbyshire in England. Truck gardens, fruit orchards, particularly citrus and many varieties of bananas, and other farming can be found in the Caripe valley, with coffee plantations and grazing of animals in more mountainous areas.
The oilbird's scientific name, Steatornis caripensis, means 'fat-bearing bird of Caripe' and the birds were harvested by the local Indians in Humboldt's time. The cave is the centerpiece of the, later-established, Cueva del Guacharo National Park, which helps protect the birds' environment.
The dense Amazon rainforest, the jagged spires of the Andes Mountains, the tropical beaches, the towering waterfalls, with this kind of nature all around, it's no wonder South America have become nearly synonymous with adventure travel and ecotourism.
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