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The most remote town in the south of Venezuela is called San Carlos de Río Negro. We visited it for the first time at the end of this 13-day journey of navigation through the rivers of the Alto Orinoco, in the most incredible trip of the 15 years of Bitácora. Located next to the dark waters of this Amazonian flow, we were fortunate to arrive just when a patron saint festival was being celebrated for the patron saint of this remote community.
I confess that after almost two weeks alone on La Iguana - that's the name of the boat we were on - visiting only indigenous communities with very few inhabitants, San Carlos de Río Negro looked like New York. The super metropolis. The crowd. Block houses. Supplies. Liquor stores. Paved streets. Guard Command. Landing track. Many people who also spoke Spanish.
Here we visited a community of curripacos and finally learned how the little kitchens that we had seen on visits to the jungle were made. A beauty in baked clay where they cook all their food. There are one and two burner ones and they only use firewood that they collect in that jungle from how much wood is dried.
It was surprising to participate in the party, which I did with great euphoria. From looking for some huge sticks that had to be cut in the jungle, for which there was a whole commission. The stick was chosen, they attacked it with machetes, everyone moved away and it fell with that roar. I've never been good at estimating sizes, but they were pretty big. We carried it along those roads to the town. There had to be two. Then they decorated it with fruits from the jungle, what they harvested in their conucos, large leaves and tied very firmly to the stick that was then raised and nailed because it was the decoration of the festival in half of the town.
As always happens in the patron saint festivities, there is drinking, eating, dancing and partying all day long. The good thing is that almost all of the La Iguana crew with whom we had shared for almost two weeks were natives of San Carlos de Río Negro. They were happy to get home, see family, friends and they introduced us to everyone. They played in the town's musical group. They sang. They were the kings of the pachanga (Party).
Tremendous party to end the cruise and it was pure coincidence. Now we just needed to get to the Piedra del Cocuy, but that's in the next chapter.
And here in San Carlos a National Guard plane looked for us to return us to Puerto Ayacucho and from there we would fly to Caracas.
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