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The Los Roques Archipelago [2] [3] (Spanish: Archipiélago de Los Roques) [4] [5] is a federal dependency of Venezuela consisting of approximately 350 islands, cays, and islets in a total area of 40.61 km 2 (15.68 sq mi). The archipelago is located 128 km (80 mi) directly north of the port of La Guaira, in the Caribbean Sea.
Roque Agando is the most prominent of a group of volcanic plugs called simply Los Roques, near the centre of the island. [2] The others are named Roque Ojila and Roque Zarcita, and sometimes Roque Carmona and Roque Las Lajas are also included. [3]
Cayo de Agua [1] [2] (in English literally Water Key) is the name of an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea [3] that geographically belongs to the Los Roques Archipelago [4] [5] and is administratively organized as part of the Federal Dependencies, Venezuela, [6] in addition to being part of the National Park of the same name and the Miranda Island Territory, the name of this key has its ...
Roques de Anaga, two monuments of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; La Roque-d'Anthéron, a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France; Los Roques archipelago, a federal dependency of Venezuela; Los Roques Airport, a small domestic airport on the El Gran Roque island in the Los Roques archipelago
Gran Roque [1] is an island, one of the federal dependencies of Venezuela, [2] located in the southeastern Caribbean Sea in the archipelago of Los Roques, [3] which has 1.7 km 2 (170 ha) in extent, where the majority of the population lives. Los Roques Airport is located by the sea, a few meters from the beach.
White sand beaches on these cays include Mero, Paiclas, Los Juanes, Playuela, Tucupido, Azul and Boca Seca. The park's bays, mangroves, cays and islands sit in the shadow of the Chichiriviche hills, with elevations up to around 250 m. [4] At 285 m high, Chichiriviche Hill is the highest point in the park.
Active sea and air searches were called off without finding any trace of the aircraft. [2] On 12 January 2008, some fishermen found the body of a man 12 kilometres off the coast of Venezuela. After having performed the autopsy, the doctors determined that it was the corpse of the co-pilot, the 37-year-old Osmel Alfredo Avila Otamendi. [ 3 ]
Las Posadas derives from the Spanish word posada (lodging, or accommodation) which, in this case, refers to the inn from the Nativity story. It uses the plural form as the celebration lasts for a nine-day interval (called the novena) during the Christmas season, which represents the nine-month pregnancy [3] [4] of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ.