Piedra del Cocuy Natural Monument

STONE DELCOCUY

It is located in the region of Guiana Shield, in the southwestern sector of the country, near the junction of the border of Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil, in the Río Negro Municipality. It was decreed on December 12, 1978 with 5.100 hectares and is an intrusive igneous rock about 400 meters high with three practically vertical peaks. This monument is considered of utmost importance given its extraordinary geological formation. Its temperature is annually between 24 ° C and 27 ° C.

La Piedra de Cocuy is a beautiful, rare and striking igneous rock formation, which is geologically characterized by being an exfoliation dome, corresponding to the Amazonian granite complex, of Precambrian age, considered an extraordinary geological structure in the world.

The most spectacular thing is its fauna, especially the birds and particularly the cock of the rocks. In landscape, the Negro river, the Araguato and Oranio streams, the jungle that is around the stone and the crevices and galleys that the rocks present. It is reached by river through the Río Negro and by air through the San Simón del Cocuy and San Carlos de Río Negro airports.


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