That's an adult Orinoco crocodile in its jaws.

The Orinoco crocodile ( Crocodylus intermedius ) is a critically endangered crocodile.

The city is also the location of the Second Orinoco crossing.

The town of La Esmeralda is the shire town of the Alto Orinoco.

The town of Caicara del Orinoco is the shire town of the Cedeño Municipality.

The Caribs were transient, travelling to the mainland (now Venezuela) and up the Orinoco River.

There is a natural water union between the Amazon and the Orinoco basins, the so called Casiquiare canal.

The Essequibo River () is the largest river in Guyana, and the largest river between the Orinoco and Amazon.

To the west of the Casiquiare, there is a much shorter and easier portage between the Orinoco and Amazon basins, called the isthmus of Pimichin, which is reached by ascending the Terni branch of the Atabapo River, an affluent of the Orinoco.

More than half of Venezuelan avian and mammalian species are found in the Amazonian forests south of the Orinoco.

External links Map of Orinoco River that Includes Visible Islands and Tributaries at the Delta of the River, 1732

Delta Amacuro State (, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela, and is the location of the Orinoco Delta.

Most of the rivers rising in the northern mountains are flowing southeastward to the Río Apure, a tributary of the Orinoco.

Nearly half of Venezuela's geographic area lies south of the Orinoco River however, this region contains only 5 of the Venezuelan population.

Even though almost half of the land area is south of the Orinoco River, only 5 of the population live in that area.

In February 1800, Humboldt and Bonpland left the coast with the purpose of exploring the course of the Orinoco River and its tributaries.

The snout is relatively longer and narrower than that of the American alligator, although broader on average than that of the Orinoco crocodile.

The Orinoco River is navigable by oceangoing vessels up to inland, and connects the major industrial city of Ciudad Guayana to the Atlantic Ocean.

The Casiquiare is a river distributary of the upper Orinoco, which flows southward into the Rio Negro, which in turn flows into the Amazon.

Mammals Along with the Orinoco, the Amazon is one of the main habitats of the boto , also known as the Amazon river dolphin ( Inia geoffrensis ).

Annual rainfall varies from in the semiarid portions of the northwest to over in the Orinoco Delta of the far east and the Amazonian Jungle in the south.

East of the Andes lies the savanna of the Llanos , part of the Orinoco River basin, and, in the far south east, the jungle of the Amazon rainforest.

The Orinoco, with its rich alluvial soils, binds the largest and most important river system of the country it originates in one of the largest watersheds in Latin America.

The country's center is characterized by the llanos , which are extensive plains that stretch from the Colombian border in the far west to the Orinoco River delta in the east.

The latter species, which is important in the aquarium industry, is also found in the Rio Negro, revealing the connection between this river and the Orinoco through the Casiquiare canal.

Historically, the region known as Guiana or Guyana comprised the large shield landmass north of the Amazon River and east of the Orinoco River known as the Land of many waters .

In the north, the Guiana Highlands form a major drainage divide, separating rivers that flow south into the Amazon Basin from rivers that empty into the Orinoco River system, in Venezuela, to the north.

The country's main petroleum deposits are located around and beneath Lake Maracaibo, the Gulf of Venezuela (both in Zulia), and in the Orinoco River basin (eastern Venezuela), where the country's largest reserve is located.

One of 17 megadiverse countries, Venezuela's habitats range from the Andes Mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rainforest in the south, via extensive llanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.

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This trip, which lasted four months and covered of wild and largely uninhabited country, had the important result of establishing the existence of the Casiquiare canal (a communication between the water systems of the rivers Orinoco and Amazon), and of determining the exact position of the bifurcation, as well as documenting the life of several native tribes such as the Maipures and their extinct rivals the Atures (several words of the latter tribe were transferred to Humboldt by one parrot).