Venezuela in a Puzzle. Monagas State, Part 2

Welcome, I hope this article is to your liking. In the first part I describe my experience during my stay in the city of Maturin, you can review it in the following link: Monagas State, Part 1.

Once I finished my basic studies at the Universidad de Oriente Maturín I continued my professional studies in Jusepín, this town emerged with the oil boom, the facilities that belonged to the Creole Petroleum Corporation, were ceded to the Universidad de Oriente, for the operation of professional careers in agriculture. This field had the main offices, classrooms, houses for professors, houses and apartments for single students and houses for married students, with a very accessible monthly payment to the students.

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When I went to the Faculty of Animal Husbandry, I really fell more in love with my studies, my love for raising cattle, that was my dream to have a farm AgroTuristica, teach tourists to milk, prepare cheese ... but the reality was different, now my farm is virtual in PlantvsUndead, and waiting for one called Chivas Farm. Job opportunities were very few and I was already married with a son.

A farm similar to this photo: Hotel Agroturistico

Wow, I forgot about Monagas again, I'll leave the University for another time. While studying at the University I had the opportunity to go to the town of Caicara, very famous because on the 28th of December the Baile del Mono or Baile los Locos takes place. The party is led by a foreman, with the sound of a guarura or bull horn, after midnight, he gives the call for the "locos" to take to the streets. The participants go from house to house waking people up.

In this party they prepare and use different colored paints and people dress up with old women's costumes, masks and hats with flowers and feathers. The party lasts all day to the rhythm of mariselas, joropos and oriental choruses. An excellent experience, there the people were ready to dance, to drink and to take blows, it was the part that I did not like, because besides that they got you wet, they dirtied you with tizne, with flour.

I also had the opportunity to go to the town of Barranca del Orinoco, to represent the University with the fair team and our livestock, this is a town that is located near the Orinoco River. On the banks of the river live the indigenous people of the Warao ethnic group.

Photo: Etnia Warao

Another town that I can not fail to mention and that in another opportunity I will talk about it is Caripe, with a very pleasant temperature (12-24ºC), there was an extension of the University, where strawberries and very sweet oranges were cultivated, we made rides in the university buses and we also visited the Guácharo cave, We had the opportunity to bathe in the waterfalls called Salto de la Paila (30 m high) and El Chorreron (50 m high), recognized natural beauties, to get there we had to walk about 30 minutes from the parking lot of the Cueva del Guácharo and then we returned in the afternoon to the university residence. How I enjoyed those walks.

Photo by: Tripadvisor. El Guácharo

Heading north on the road that connects Monagas with the state of Sucre via Caripe, we find the El Guamo dam, with a capacity of 155,000,000 m3 that holds water from the Guarapiche, Colorado, Cocollar and other rivers; it was built on the ruins of the towns of San Francisco, Cachimbo and Colorado. When the waters go down in the dry season, you can see some of the roofs of houses that were submerged. There you can practice water sports or fish with permission from the Ministry of Environment.

Photho by: Steemkr. El Guamo Dam

For me, the state of Monagas has an unquestionable tourist potential; it has great architectural attractions such as its churches, the Sarrapial hacienda and the soccer stadium, its natural beauties such as the Guácharo Cave and the Morrocoyes Cave; the variety of dances and traditional fairs such as the Mono de Caicara, the carnivals of Maturin, the snake of Ipure and the Horse Fair.

Photo by: San Antonio

San Antonio de Capayacuar is a picturesque town with very friendly inhabitants. Legend has it that the Capayas tribe lived there, one morning the children went to fetch water at the spring, when suddenly a giant snake came out (The Ipure snake) swallowing one of them, and disappearing into the spring. The children alerted the tribe, and the sorcerer invoked the snake and killed it, opened it and found the girl's body. Some time later they returned to the spring and found that a lagoon had formed in the place where they killed the snake. The festivities are held in the month of June in the name of San Antonio de Padua and the event is commemorated with a dance with a group of girls simulating a snake.

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Thursday, October 14, 2021

Reference:

Wepia. Viaje Mágico por Venezuela. El Nacional. Año, 2.006

Portada photo edited by me

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