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00:00 How to get to Ciudad Bolívar?
01:06 Panadero Island in Ciudad Bolívar.
01:02 The Mighty Orinoco by Jules Verne.
02:32 The Legend of the Orinoco Monster.
03:30 What did Humboldt say when he navigated the Orinoco?
03:57 Why is the Caroní River important for Venezuela?
04:30 What is it like to navigate the La Llovizna Falls?
05:48 What is it like to navigate the Cachamay Falls?
06:52 Why does the Orinoco join with the Caroní?
08:48 Union of Orinoco and Caroní: legend.
09:16 Valentina Quintero in the Orinoco.
Since I am convinced that life is measured by the rivers where I have bathed, I went to pursue the two great rivers of Venezuela: the Orinoco and the Caroní. I looked for the father river in Ciudad Bolívar, one of my favorite cities in Venezuela, because it has plenty of personality, the walls sweat history and the Orinoco is a presence that determines it and the people in it. If the river rises there will be a bank and the entire population goes out to fish on the pier. In the sapoara season, a legend claims that whoever eats it will never leave. The daily diet includes river fish prepared in the most diverse versions, its beaches are what Tucacas is to Morrocoy and Puerto Cabello to Isla Larga. Here the baths are of fresh water. The currents are something to be respected. Navigating it is a joy. And the Middle Stone indicates the level. Everyone believes in it, just as they assure that when it gets covered, the 7-headed monster that lives down there will come out and boats will disappear.
I remember that I met the Orinoco alligator, through a man who was an expert in finding corpses in the river, someone who knew the currents perfectly. In this chapter I tell you many of these stories and even how there once existed an island called Panadero (baker), because there once was a bakery.
To navigate the Caroní I went to Ciudad Guayana, one of these cities that was built with the gringo mentality of large highways, due to its industrial character having the companies of Guayana. Here they coexist with the largest dams in the country. Hydroelectric energy is produced here that illuminates Venezuelans and that, until the arrival of this regime, it was unfailable. There was so much energy that it was even sold abroad. But hey... the regime's infinite capacity for destruction is already known to everyone. We reach its waterfalls and look for the moment when the dark, almost black waters of the Caroní meet the brown ones of the Orinoco. There is a scientific version and a romantic version that explain why they remain distant. You stay with the one that moves you the most, but yes, throw yourself into the union of both rivers so that your life is as long and fruitful as I aspire mine to be after throwing myself into so many rivers.
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📌Director/Dp:
Branimir Caleta - @caletadp
📌Journalist/General Production:
Valentina Quintero - @valendeviaje
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Edward Nogales - @nogalesrob
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Gustavo Mendoza - @el.tasto
Alexander Ramirez @damianjr23
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