Caicara del Orinoco

This article is about the Venezuelan town. For the Brazilian municipality, see Caiçara.

Caicara del Orinoco is a town in, and the administrative seat of, Cedeño Municipality, Bolívar State, Venezuela. It was founded in the middle of the Eighteenth Century.

Currently the Venezuelan government is building a bridge across the Orinoco at Caicara. When completed the bridge will be 2.4 km long.

Alexander von Humboldt discovered petroglyphs carved in the granite and gneiss near the river at Caicara.^[1] Further investigation revealed a large number of prehistoric petroglyphs in the area.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Bendrat, T. A. (1912) "Discovery of Some New Petroglyphs near Caicara on the Orinoco" American Journal of Archaeology 16(4): pp. 518-523, pp. 518-519

References

This article incorporates information from the revision as of 30 January 2009 of the equivalent article on the Spanish Wikipedia.