About a thousand years ago, the Taino people from Venezuela took over the island. In 1511, forces from Spain defeated the Taino and claimed the island as a Spanish territory. The Spanish forced many of the Taino people into slave labour. Most died from overwork and from diseases brought by...
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"The unearthly vegetation was...fleshy and lurid, so green the air was green." —David Nott It's often called the lost world, after Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 fantasy novel. By any name, eastern Venezuela's tepui country is indeed rich in fantasy and adventure, in strange and spectacular...
2. The Amazon is found in South America, spanning across Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. 3. Running through the north of the rainforest is the Amazon River— a network of many hundreds of waterways that stretches 6,840km. Although th...
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