Puerto Ayacucho is the capital and largest city of Amazonas state in Venezuela. Puerto Ayacucho is located across the Orinoco River from the Colombia village of Casuarito. In 1997 its population was approximately 70,000. The city was founded to facilate the transport of goods past the rapids on the Orinoca river in the late ninteenth century (mostly rubber). Now the economy is supported by both national and international tourism. Also based here is the Venezuelan army and navy, conducting a continuous low level campaign against incursents and drug runners from nearby Colombia. The climate is equatorial and the surrounding rainforests are some of the worlds least explored and most untouched. The nearby forested mountains (Tepuis) contain some the worlds least investigated micro systems. Two hundred Km to the South is one of the natural worlds great wonders, the ''Brazo Casaquiary'', a waterway that links South Americas' two greatest river systems, the Amazon and the Orinoco. This was discovered by Humbolt in the nineteenth century, nowadays tourists can organise a trip along it from Puerto Ayacucho. The water in this link can flow into the Rio Negro, tributary of the Amazon, or the Orinoco depending on where it's raining at the time! The inhabitants are mostly ''Creole'' -- mixed indigenous and Spanish blood. There are a number of local indigenous tribes including the Yanomami, the Bari, Piaroa, and Guajibo (also known as jibis). Puerto Ayacucho has a small airport and has good bus connections to San Felix and Bolivar City. There is little traffic on the river these days. There is a range of medium and low cost hotels. It's a pretty unlovely sort of place, however the surrounding country is magnificent. Cities in Venezuela
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Puerto Ayacucho is the capital and largest city of Amazonas state in Venezuela. Puerto Ayacucho is located across the Orinoco River from the Colombia village of Casuarito. In 1997 its population was approximately 70,000. The city was founded to facilate the transport of goods past the rapids on the Orinoca river in the late ninteenth century (mostly rubber). Now the economy is supported by both national and international tourism. Also based here is the Venezuelan army and navy, conducting a continuous low level campaign against incursents and drug runners from nearby Colombia. The climate is equatorial and the surrounding rainforests are some of the worlds least explored and most untouched. The nearby forested mountains (Tepuis) contain some the worlds least investigated micro systems. Two hundred Km to the South is one of the natural worlds great wonders, the ''Brazo Casaquiary'', a waterway that links South Americas' two greatest river systems, the Amazon and the Orinoco. This was discovered by Humbolt in the nineteenth century, nowadays tourists can organise a trip along it from Puerto Ayacucho. The water in this link can flow into the Rio Negro, tributary of the Amazon, or the Orinoco depending on where it's raining at the time! The inhabitants are mostly ''Creole'' -- mixed indigenous and Spanish blood. There are a number of local indigenous tribes including the Yanomami, the Bari, Piaroa, and Guajibo (also known as jibis). Puerto Ayacucho has a small airport and has good bus connections to San Felix and Bolivar City. There is little traffic on the river these days. There is a range of medium and low cost hotels. It's a pretty unlovely sort of place, however the surrounding country is magnificent. Cities in Venezuela
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