Discovered by Christopher Columbus during his third journey, land of Eldorado to the Conquistadores, Venezuela is Simon Bolivar’s birthplace, the Libertador who freed Spanish America in XIX century. It is also the homeland of the black gold (oil) which secured its prosperity from 1920s onward. History rich, situated at the crossroads of Andean, Caribbean and Amazonian cultural influences, Venezuela is also a country full of natural contrasts with a blend of deserts from its western point to the Delta of Orinoco at its eastern point, snow-covered mountain tops in the Andes, the Caribbean Sea stretching along its coastline, the great plains of the interior and the Amazon rainforest. |