Panorama Cultural

Panorama cultural: Venezuela

General

Caracas: www.interknowledge.com/venezuela/caracas/index.htm

Caracas is Caracas: www.caveguias.com.ve/tour/capital/Caracas/Caracas.html

Destination Venezuela: www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/sam/ven.htm

InfoVenezuela: www.infovenezuela.net/ve/e/home.asp

LANIC Venezuela: lanic.utexas.edu/la/venezuela

Latin World Venezuela: www.latinworld.com/sur/venezuela

Venezuela Postales: www.postalven.com/venez.htm

Venezuela Tuya: www.venezuelatuya.com/eng.htm

Virtual Tour of Venezuela: web.mit.edu/vensamit/www/tour/tour.html

Simón Bolívar

History of Simón Bolívar: www.bolivarmo.com/history.htm

Simón Bolívar (Spanish): www.caveguias.com.ve/tour/biografias/SBolivar/SBolivar.html

Simón Bolívar (Spanish): www.mundomail.net/biografias/bolivar.htm

Sites and cities

Auyan-tepui Mountain: www.onsetcomp.com/Applications/Venezuelan/3288_Venezuelan.html

Coro (Spanish): www.venezuelatuya.com/occidente/coro.htm

Ciudad Bolívar: www.venezuela-web.de/reisefuehrer/reise_sp/stadt/ciudad_bolivar.htm

Historia del Salto Ángel (Spanish): www.fortunecity.com/olympia/jordan/568/salto2.html

Tepuis: www.planeta.com/planeta/97/0897ven.html

Venezuela: home.wanadoo.nl/jeroeng.kuiper/1998/start.htm

Sports

Hang Gliding Sites in Venezuela: www.sky-adventures.com/hang/HGsites/venezuela/index.html

Trekking: www.southwindadventures.com

Venezuela: www.journeylatinamerica.co.uk/venezuela.htm

Newspapers

Newspapers Online Venezuela: www.newspapers.com/results.asp?country=VENEZUELA

El Nacional: el-nacional.terra.com.ve

Culture

The International Council of Museums: www.icom.org/vlmp/latin-america.html#Venezuela

Actividad cultural

Use the Web links on this page or others to complete the following items about Venezuela.
1. Who discovered Salto Ángel and how? How do tourists reach this site today?

2. What are the Tepuis? Why are they sometimes compared to the Galápagos?

3. What other geographical attractions are found in Venezuela?



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