Angel Fall

    If I were a travel agent in my country, without a doubt, the place where I would take the tourists would be Angel Falls. Angel Falls is the world’s highest waterfall and it is located in a rather isolated jungle in the Canaima National Park in Venezuela. Canaima is a Venezuelan National Park declared a world Heritage Site by UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1994 and it is extended over an area of more than 30.000 Km2 to the border with Brazil and the Essequibo. 

    The Name of Angel Falls, was suggested by a Venezuelan in honor of the American aviator Jimmie Angel, who in 1937 corroborated the existence and the exact location of the fall by flying over it in his plane.  The Angel Falls has a height of 979 meters (3,212 ft), where the water of the Churun River falls from the most famous and visited tepui of Venezuela, the Auyantepui.  A tepui or tepuy, is a table-top mountain found in South America, especially in Venezuela. The Auyan-Tepui, is the most visited and one of the largest tepuis in the Guiana Highlands with a summit area of 666.9 Km2 and an estimated slope area of 715 Km2. 

    However, tourist activity in this area has been a continuing source of conflict between the government and the ancestral inhabitants, known as Pemones. Because the Pemon people claim that tourism would imply on one hand the deforestation and loss of biodiversity of the Venezuelan Amazon, and on the other hand the lack of their traditions, practices and cultures and the displacement of their people in this area.

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