El Cocuy - General Presentation
Birdwatching. Henri Pittier National Park, Choroní
As you travel through the road that connect the town of Maracay with the Choroni’s poblation, we pass through the National Park Henri Pittier. In the rural zone known by the name of Uraca you will find the antique Hidraulic Plant named "Agua Fuerte", build in the General Gomez’s time (1910). As you walk for 15 minutes by a mountain path which starts from the hidraulic plant, you will arrive to the Mountain Refuge "El Cocuy", in the sector called Mocundo.
The Refuge "El Cocuy" offers the tourists the opportunity of enjoying the natural marvels of the principal National Park of Venezuela, National Park Henri Pittier, such as exotic exuberant flowers, tipical of a humid forest, an ample variety of animals specially birds (40% of birds which exist in Venezuela), fresh and cristal rivers with pools for swimming and a peaceful atmosphere between much virgin nature.
Aditionally, the visitor can get to know and appreciate the human activity and the folklore from Choroni and Puerto Colombia, coffee plantations and Venezuelan chocolaters very near to this Refuge.
You can see the fabrication of raw sugar from a sugar mill, agriculture from a maize field, artesanal fishing, also colonial architecture in the Choroni population dated since the past century (1740).
In Puerto Colombia, the sun lovers can have a good time in Playa Grande, a bay of 2 km of cristal water, surrounded by coconut palms. A few minutes from this part, by sea, the tourists can get to know Cepe and Chuao, the paradise beaches.
In the cool night, the activity is transformed by folklore dances, bases on the playing of drums, around the parties and traditional religions.
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