The oficial website about La Gran sabana in venezuela

Population CARONI 2010, 804 167 inhabitants.

Its tourism potential is linked to the Business Tourism, Agriculture, Sports and Ecological. It is recommended to visit among other attractions: The Parks "Cachamay", "Loefling", "The Rain" and his Theatre of Stone, "The Foundation" and "Christmas" with the Eco Water Plaza, Tourist Circuits Basic Business, the Palacio Municipal de San Felix and his Malecón, the squares of the Iron, and Miranda Flags and Missions of the Caroni.

Its capital Ciudad Guayana, is considered the 5th most important city in Venezuela, as chair of the Core Business of the State. It is made by the people of Puerto Ordaz and San Felix. The first, founded in 1961, is an industrial leader in the global metal production, and the second located at the mouth of the Caroni River, founded in 1628 by Capuchin missionaries, is liaison River Port eastern Venezuela and the rest of world. Ciudad Guayana, is surrounded by landscapes and scenery, making it a magnet for Trade, Tourism and Recreation in national and international relevance.

Natural Monument - a National Historic Cerro El Gallo ": Formed by a small rise about two miles and a half for each side. It was the scene of the Battle of San Félix, recognized as one of the decisive events in the process of independence of Venezuela and Latin, in which the 11 April 1817, the Commanding General Manuel Piar, royalist forces defeated the Brigadier Michael La Torre, it allowed the province of Guayana free from Spanish rule.

Location: Avenida Manuel Piar - San Felix.

Ruins of the Caroni Missions: Ruins consolidated the mission of the Immaculate Conception of the Caroni of the Capuchin friars of the eighteenth century Catalan. Dominating the tribes in the region, the missionaries organized a vast network of missions and haciendas, created an agricultural empire that, being taken by the Patriots in 1817, allowed the supply of the army of liberation and the subsequent victories of Boyaca and Carabobo. In the churchyard is a monument erected in honor of the Capuchin Fathers of the order of evangelization in Guyana.

Location: on the road the Pao-San Felix.

Caroni River: Born in the western slope of Mount Roraima-tepuy, is the largest tributary of the Orinoco River, the second volume of Venezuela, runs about 840 kilometers from its source, to save a level of 912 feet to its confluence with the Orinoco. In its lower reaches, at the height of the barrel of Nekuima, the river presents a bottleneck in which the dam was built Raúl Leoni (Guri). The Caroni has been a source of inspiration for myths and legends to explain the immense wealth of the watershed that gives rise.

Location: between Puerto Ordaz and San Felix.

The Rain Falls: waterfall formed by the lower falls of the Caroni River, blackish water, twenty feet high and streams that rise and fall as rain over a wall of Precambrian rocks.

Location: Avenida Leopoldo Sucre Figarella-San Felix.

Lake Macagua: Huge stage, with an area of 47.4 square kilometers, consisting of an elevation of water at a depth of 54.50 meters, while preserving the characteristics of the river due to its elongated shape. It has an adjacent area of protection, within which establishes areas of tourism development and recreation.

Location: Ciudad Guayana.

Parque Punta Vista: urban park is part of Caroni, has an area of 25 hectares including the lake bearing the same name.

Location: club point of view-Puerto Ordaz.

Cachamay Park: Takes its name from the rapids of the lower Caroni, which consists of 52 hectares of green areas and a variety of vegetation.

Location: Avenida Guayana, Puerto Ordaz.

Cachamay Falls: One of the falls below the Rio Caroni river in last season's breakneck ride to the mouth of the Orinoco.

Location: Cachamay Park, Avenida Guayana, Puerto Ordaz.

Loefling Park: Named after the Swede Peter Loefling, in recognition of research conducted on flora, in the famous expedition of boundaries led by José de Iturriaga, a task that linked first European science in Venezuela. It is an area of 245 hectares, it aims to accommodate and preserve animal species and vegetation of the region in danger of extinction, there is variety of wildlife as váquiros, monkeys, tigers, dogs, water, among others.

Location: Avenida Guayana, Cachamay park entrance.

Christmas Park: Opened on December 2, 1988, was conceived as a permanent exhibition of the spirit of Christmas, consists of a playground, a windmill as a lookout, monolith of aluminum, concrete walkways, green areas and lead soldiers . Sample of a "troll" donated by the children of Norwegian children from Guyana, a work created by renowned Norwegian sculptor "bruntlan karten. There is also a work of Guyanese artist Alejandro Otero.

Location: Av Guayana Americas, Alta Vista, Puerto Ordaz.

Parque La Rain: It has an area of 160 hectares, consisting of 30 islands. Its climate is humid and warm, over 80% of the soil was formed from geological material Imataca. Among the fauna found: iguanas, frogs, sloth, has a natural sanctuary for birds such as tile, rooster, hummingbird and the vegetation is represented by aerial roots, Guam, carob, araguaney, jaracanda, ceiba.

Location: Avenida Leopoldo Sucre Figarella, San Felix

Park Foundation: Built on the site of the founding of the modern city of Santo Tome de Guayana, now known as Ciudad Guayana. Attractive with light source, viewpoint, central plaza, playground, nine squares with sculptures that identify the various subsidiaries of CVG, playground with a replica of the wagon train carrying iron ore.

Location: Avenida Gumilla with Centurion, San Felix.

Plaza Bolivar: Work that was opened on 23 July 1984, has a completely different architectural design to other places in Venezuela, with the central figure of the liberator, a replica of the famous work of Italian sculptor Pietro Tenerani which is in Bogotá. In its modern design elements were used typical Guyanese geography: the water of the Orinoco, significant element of social economic development in the area, walls or buttresses which serve as the backdrop to the monument to Bolivar, each of them symbolizes a country liberated by Bolivar .

Location: Center of San Felix.

Plaza Del Hierro: Founded by the Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana, in his anniversary xxv, 29 December 1985. Consists of two iron monoliths brought from the Cerro San Isidro, walkways.

Location: Av Guayana, Alta Vista, Puerto Ordaz.

Plaza El Agua: Building opened on December 2, 1997, architectural structure, which is part of the additional works of the hydroelectric complex on January 23. It has a plant area of oak trees, jaracanda, Majoma and guatamare. Stepped surface has a fan-shaped ring featuring a cascading water.

Location: Avs adjacencies. Leopoldo Sucre Figarella Herrera and Pedro Palacio, San Felix.

The Source of Energy and Life: Works opened on December 29, 1999, is made by a pedestrian promenade surrounded by green areas of approximately 12 hectares. It has eight water jets and has a light that can be appreciated by visitors at night.

Location: Plaza del Agua.

Hydroelectric 23 January - Macagua II: Macagua II, is the first project implementation plan under Caroni, this central Macagua with Guri and I, helping to meet the growing demand for electricity in the country, urban setting is a special recreational and entertainment for the whole community.

Location: Ciudad Guayana, 10 km upstream from the confluence of the Caroni to Orinoco, just off macaw I.

Ecomuseum Del Caroni: part of the hydroelectric Macagua II, attractive building built in a red bucket, comprises the information and documentation center, which conserves collections of works of art that illustrate the phenomena of nature, specifically on the Caroni River Basin. Within the structure of this museum is the Historical Museum of Guyana.

Location: Adjacency Avenue and Pedro Leopoldo Sucre Figarella Palacio Herrera.

CVG Siderurgica del Orinoco, Sidor: Surge in Guyana from 1926, with the discovery of iron ore deposits in the hills of the Pao and Bolivar. Sidor is the largest industrial complex in Venezuela. Located on the right bank of the Orinoco River, has an area of 2838 hectares.

Location: Matanzas industrial area-Puerto Ordaz.

Ferrominera Orinoco CVG: Starts its operations on 1 January 1976, with the nationalization of the iron ore industry. It is a logging company, processing and selling iron ore to domestic and international markets.

Location: via Caracas-Puerto Ordaz.