Zulia
The Venezuelan State of Zulia is located in the Northwestern part of the country. A quick look at the map of South America shows the large Lake Maracaibo[?]. The lake is the largest body of water of this type found in South America and the Lake Maracaibo Basin covers one of the largest oil and gas reserves in this hemisphere.A long and mostly uninhabited border separates Venezuela from Colombia to the North and West from the Guajira Peninsula[?] to the mountains of Perija[?]. The Venezuelan Andean States of Tachira[?], Merida and Trujillo[?] border Zulia State at the Southern end of Lake Maracaibo and finally the States of Lara and Falcon complete the boundaries of Zulia.
This is the remarkable territory that has brought enormous oil wealth to the country, creating today's Venezuela.
The name Venezuela also comes from the Lake Maracaibo area. Spanish Conquistadors sailing into this area found the indigenous peoples living in communities of huts supported by stilts along the shores of the Lake over 500 years ago and promptly named this new territory "little Venice" or Venezuela.
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fountains, the highest of which are the glaciers that lie on the north
little interruption, from the lower end of the Valley to its head, a
which the glorious mountains may be enjoyed as they look down in divine
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mile above the Soda Springs, the main fork turning southward to Mount
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daisies, potentillas, and the pink bells of dwarf vaccinium. On the
found, where the sod curls over stream banks and around boulders. The
slender filiform leaves, and when it is in flower the ground seems to
fine that they are almost invisible, and offer no appreciable resistance
pines and throughout the greater part of the Valley tall ribbon-leaved
every leaf is laden with crystals, are a fine sight. The days are still
the late-blooming flowers until the coming of the snow, usually in
meadows to a depth of from ten to twenty feet, while magnificent
depositing huge piles of snow mixed with uprooted trees and boulders. In
new season's vegetation is not generally in bloom until late in July.
snowfall is from the middle of July to the middle or end of.
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