- San Carlos de Río Negro
San Carlos de Rio Negro is a town in
Venezuela 's Amazonas State.It serves as the administrative centre for the surroundingmunicipality of Rio Negro , a municipal district inhabited (maioritariamente) for peopleAmerind , with prominence for the peopleYanomami andBaniwa . It is at the front of the Colombian citySan Rafael , that sit in the opposite side of the rio Negro.The city of San Carlos de Río Negro was founded in
1759 around a mounted camp by the expedition captained byJosé Solano that moved to that area in the extent of the works of exploration of the limits between the Crowns of Portugal and Spain requested by theTreaty of Madrid . José Solano set up his exploration base in that place, in the margins of the Rio Negro, and there he settled with the few men that had survived the ascent along theOrinoco river , since most, including the famous Swedish botanistPehr Löfling that accompanied the expedition, they had succumbed prey of the tropical diseases, especially theyellow fever . The city locates the few kilometers the (jusante) of the outlet of theCasiquiare canal , in the shore of the international thing of the rio Negro, an important fluvial artery that it unitesVenezuela ,Colombia andBrazil . Their geographical coordinates are 1° 13' North latitude and 67° 06' longitude West, being 65 m above the medium level of the seaThe town just has aerial connections for regular services of aerotaxis and for waterway, since by land you only have a small highway of penetration of 20 km of extension that the league to the small fluvial port of the town of Solano, in the margins of Cassiquiare. In the environs there locates solid great denominated rocky La Piedra del Cocuy an excellent escalade place and of visit to one of the richest areas in
biodiversity of the wholeEarth .The climate is tropical húmido, with annual medium temperature of 26,6°C and a medium precipitation of 3,633 mm/year.
San Carlos de Río Negro was visited from
May 7 toMay 10 ,1800 for the expedition ofAlexander von Humboldt andAimé Bonpland , constituting the most southern point of their (périplo) for theAmazon Basin .External links
* [http://www.mipunto.com/venezuelavirtual/000/002/025/002/002.html Tourist information]
* [http://www.venezuelatuya.com/estados/amazonas.htm Information on the Venezuelan state of Amazon]
* [http://www.mipagina.cantv.net/turismoamazonas/paquete5.htm Tourist information]
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