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What is behind the National Park Henri Pittier so that, since 1904, the then President General Cipriano Castro was so stubborn about opening a mule way that went through all of it?
And so that further on the general Gómez in the year 1933 was willing to do the same, managing to open a road and even build a hotel in the plain forest which later on would become the Biological Station Rancho Grande?
Well then, what we have here is the Caribbean. The Golden Coast. The towns of Cumboto, Ocumare de la Costa and Cata. There are people committed to living from tourism with an offer of more than 250 inns, some 10 hotels, a lot of restaurants, and operators who are busy picking up and bringing visitors to all attractions.
Nature here shines with one of the most beautiful bays in Venezuela. Cata it is called, a quiet sea because it is protected by a natural pier. And just to the side it has Catica, smaller and private, wild, you can only reach it by walking or by boat from Cata. Once you’re out of the bay it is possible to take a boat in La Boca at Ocumare de la Costa or in Cata to navigate that tropical coast and the Caribbean and enjoy La Ciénaga, a lagoon of all the blues going inside to the mountain. Here the mangrove shines on all its varieties. They offer very simple hosting services, camping, snorkeling, diving, and kayaking. And if you want a more virgin and private beach, where there is only sand, waves, and sea, go to Juan Andrés, total loneliness. The most that can happen is that if the sea is rough, you cannot enter.
But these towns don’t settle only with tourism. Cocoa is still cultivated here, just as Douglas Dager does in Cumboto, with a completely organic plantation of creole cocoa from Aragua. Also in Cumboto, you have rivers to remove the salt water. In Ocumare they keep their old church where they venerate Saint Sebastian, but since the year 2022, St. John is the co-patron. I suggest visiting them on June 24, on the feast of St. John, because in his house you can find the oldest Saint John from Venezuela and the one who unleashes the deepest passions.
Definitely, the true gold of Venezuela is on the surface, without the need to dig into its land destroying the oldest ecosystem on the planet.