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La Esmeralda
Country Venezuela
StateAmazonas State
MunicipalityAlto Orinoco Municipality
Founded1758
Elevation
225 m (738 ft)
Time zoneVST
ClimateAf
Orinoco river crossing La Esmeralda

La Esmeralda is a small settlement in and the capital of Alto Orinoco Municipality in Venezuela’s Amazonas State. The name means “the emerald”. It is located on the shore of the Orinoco river, only 9 miles from the Casiquiare canal bifurcation that links it to the Amazon River.

The settlement contains about a hundred homes, a school, an airfield and a military outpost.

References

La Esmeralda Mercal