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Separating the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Paria, the peninsula is part of the Serranía del Litoral mountain range, in the Venezuelan Coastal Range portion of the northern Andes. Its tip is within sight of the naked eye from the island of Trinidad. [1] National Park. Península de Paria National Park protects a section of the peninsula.
Península de Paria National Park is open to hiking and outdoor recreation, and includes both coastal and mountainous landscapes in which the highest areas of the peninsula are registered: Cerro El Patao (1070 masl) and Cerro Humo (1371 masl).
The ecoregion covers the coastal area to the east of the Araya Peninsula, and extends over parts of the Paria Peninsula. [1] It excludes two mountain areas of the Paria peninsula, which are in the Cordillera de la Costa montane forests ecoregion. [2] To the north it includes the Margarita, Cubagua and Coche islands in the Caribbean. It has an ...
The Gulf of Paria (/ ˈ p æ r i ə / PA-ree-ə; [1] Spanish: Golfo de Paria) is a 7,800 km 2 (3,000 sq mi) shallow (180 m at its deepest) semi-enclosed inland sea located between the island of Trinidad and the east coast of Venezuela. It separates the two countries by as little as 15 km at its narrowest and 120 km at its widest points.
Paria Point, a mountain in Zion National Park, Utah; Paria River, tributary of the Colorado River, United States; Paria Peninsula, peninsula in Sucre, Venezuela; Gulf of Paria, gulf on the South of Paria Peninsula, the Orinoco River delta in Venezuela and on west coast of Trinidad; The name given to North America on the Waldseemüller map.
The Bocas del Dragón (Dragon's Mouths) are the series of straits separating the Gulf of 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 Patos Island of Venezuela.
Mapire Beach; This beautiful cove is a settlement of several fishermen families, and has a small river that supplies the population with water. This bay is open towards the south; the beach is 100 meters long.
The Balkans is a region which natural borders do not coincide with the technical definition of a peninsula hence modern geographers reject the idea of a Balkan Peninsula. It would include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and the European part of Turkey.