Q24N (Caracas Chronicles) When almost 300 Polish tourists arrived at Margarita’s airport recently, they were greeted with smiles and welcome drinks, presented with hats, and snapped by cameras. Since November, when a charter flight agreement between Venezuela and Poland began, there’s been a stream of pictures and videos published online by government officials and news…
Venezuela’s Los Roques Archipelago National Park was created in 1972 to protect a marine ecosystem of exceptional beauty and ecological value dominated by coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass beds. The park, located about 80 miles north of the port of "La Guaira" in Caracas, covers 546 acres, making it the largest marine park in the…
Los Roques Archipelago
Covering a total area of 40.61 km
2, the Los Roques archipelago comprises more than 350 uninhabited cays, islands, and islets and is situated about 128 km to the north of the La Guaira port in the Caribbean Sea. Los Roques is a federal dependency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Together with the ABC Islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao), the Los Roques archipelago forms a part of the Leeward Antilles.
Geography
Map of Venezuela with Los Roques marked in the Caribbean Sea between Bonaire and Isla la Orchila.
The Los Roques archipelago is an extensive coral atoll with two external barriers that are formed by coral communities. The archipelago also contains an inner lagoon and sandy shallows. The coral atoll extends for about 24.6 km north to south and about 36 km east to west. Encompassing an area of 2,211.2 km
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