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    The Paria Peninsula (Spanish: Península de Paria) is a large peninsula on the Caribbean Sea, in the state of Sucre in northern Venezuela. Separating the...
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  • country Paria Point, a mountain in Zion National Park, Utah Paria River, tributary of the Colorado River, United States Paria Peninsula, peninsula in Sucre...
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    The Gulf of Paria (/ˈpæriə/ PA-ree-ə; Spanish: Golfo de Paria) is a 7,800 km2 (3,000 sq mi) shallow (180 m at its deepest) semi-enclosed inland sea located...
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  • Paracas Peninsula Punta del Este Araya Peninsula Guajira Peninsula Paraguaná Peninsula Paria Peninsula Brobdingnag in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift...
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  • situated 24 kilometers from Guiria, the capital of Valdez, on the Paria Peninsula. Population: 120 inhabitants Demonym: Maripero Currency: Bolívar fuerte...
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    Endler's livebearer, in the genus Poecilia, is a small fish native to the Paria Peninsula in Venezuela. They are prolific breeders and often hybridize with guppies...
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    The Araya and Paria xeric scrub occupies the arid zones of the Araya and Paria peninsulas, except the montane areas of the Paria Peninsula, which are included...
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    Peninsula, and extends over parts of the Paria Peninsula. It excludes two mountain areas of the Paria peninsula, which are in the Cordillera de la Costa...
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  • Antillean Creole call the language patois. It is also named Patuá in the Paria Peninsula of Venezuela and spoken since the eighteenth century by self-colonization...
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  • a group of six small islands lying west of Port of Spain in the Gulf of Paria. Also known as Las Cotorras. Caledonia Island Craig Island (Craig and Caledonia...
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    highway reaches Yaguaraparo, on the southern portion of the Paria Peninsula along the Gulf of Paria, Highway 9 continues west for approximately 83 kilometres...
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    The Península de Paria National Park (Spanish: Parque nacional Península de Paria), or Peninsula of Paria National Park, Is a national park on Paria Peninsula...
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    considered the gateway to the Paria Peninsula and its main commercial and financial center. It was somewhere on the Peninsula of Paria, near Carúpano, where Christopher...
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    Bocas del Dragón (category Gulf of Paria)
    Paria from the Caribbean Sea. There are four Bocas, from west to east: The Boca Grande or Grand Boca separates Chacachacare from the Paria Peninsula and...
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    Orinoco Delta, west of Zulia, Andean and Coastal range foothills, Paria Peninsula and Barlovento region; with rainfall between 1,600 and 2,500 mm per...
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    then governor of the eastern part of Venezuela known as Paria (named after Paria Peninsula), was the first European to explore the Orinoco river in 1531–32...
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    the northern part is the double peninsula, which in the east is the peninsula of Paria and in the west is the peninsula of Araya, dividing the slopes of...
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    Columbus was searching for the southern route to India and explored the Paria Peninsula (Eastern Venezuela) and the Orinoco region, where he discovered the...
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    highest peaks of Trinidad's Northern Range and nearby on Venezuela's Paria Peninsula. Marine life is abundant, with several species of sea urchin, coral...
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    Columbus sent several small boats ashore on the southern side of the Paria Peninsula in what is now Venezuela, near the mouth of the Orinoco river. This...
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    The men sailed across the Gulf of Paria, and on 5 August, landed on the mainland of South America at the Paria Peninsula. Columbus, suffering from a monthlong...
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  • golden treefrog, only found in the highest peaks in Trinidad and the Paria Peninsula, Venezuela . The constant cloud/fog cover and lower temperatures associated...
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  • Orinoco. August 4–12 – Columbus explores the Gulf of Paria. On August 5 he lands on the Paria Peninsula, the first definitely recorded landing of Europeans...
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    Libertador at the Guanoco River only about 25 km (16 mi) east of the Golfo de Paria. The asphalt lake has a surface area of about 445 ha (1,100 acres) and the...
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    particularly Corsicans, established themselves along the coast of the Paria Peninsula, contributing significantly to the cocoa industry. Additionally, Italians...
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    Rico and Dominica. On his third trip in 1498 he discovered Trinidad, Paria Peninsula and the Island of Margarita, remaining until 1500 in Hispaniola. The...
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  • the Caribbean Sea, and the economic centre of Paria Peninsula, due to it being near the Gulf of Paria's natural gas fields, where several state and private...
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    Páez municipalities), Ocumare de La Costa, Choroní; El Callao and Paria Peninsula (where Afro-Trinidadian also migrated); and through Los Llanos, well...
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    found in two locations in Venezuela, the Cordillera de Caripe and the Paria Peninsula, and also on Tobago. The Tobago population was almost extirpated by...
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    "Description of Poecilia (Acanthophacelus) wingei n. sp. from the Paria Peninsula, Venezuela, including notes on Acanthophacelus Eigenmann, 1907 and...
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