Venezuela (pronounced /ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə/, Amer. Span. IPA: [beneˈswela]), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America.
The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea. Currently, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela possesses borders with Guyana to the east, Brazil to the south, and Colombia to the west. Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, St. Lucia, Barbados, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Leeward Antilles lie just north, off the Venezuelan coast. Falling within the tropics, Venezuela sits close to the equator, in the Northern Hemisphere.
Located along the Tropic of Cancer, this South American country has the longest coast (1,750 miles) in the Caribbean. With 353,83 square miles, Venezuela offers geographic extremes from cays among Los Roques that barely peek above water to the snow-capped Andes and everything in Between.
Discovery's all around us. All we have to do is look.
Venezuela's Tepuis
By Tom Melham
"The unearthly vegetation was...fleshy and lurid, so green the air was green." —David Nott
It's often called the lost world, after Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 fantasy novel. By any name, eastern Venezuela's tepui country is indeed rich in fantasy and adventure, in strange and spectacular scenery, in legend and legendary treasure.
