History about El Ávila National Park

Venezuela It is one of the countries with the greatest geographical and natural diversity since it has a very varied climate in different regions of its territory, the plains, deserts, mountains, jungles, beach, sea, this rich combination offers Venezuela a place that is full of parks and natural ecological reserves such as the el Avila national park, but we currently know this park but we do not know its origin and its history, in this article we will give you some very interesting information about the history of this park.

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El el Avila national park It is one of the oldest of Venezuela and over the years its surface was changing and also had severe modifications as well as acquired new ranges thanks to conservation this park emerged in 1958 more than 50 years ago and its surface extends from the city of Caracas to In the state of Mérida, this park is also considered a green space and one of the lungs of the city and also plays a very important role in preserving the purity of the air in the capital of Venezuela.

This park, in addition to having a varied range of vegetation, also has undulating and mountainous soils such as the Naiguata peak whose height is 2.765 mt. This mountainous peak was already known since ancient times when the Spanish arrived in America, the natives of the region of Venezuela named the mountain as Sierra Grande and at the time of the Cabildo de Caracas In 1778 it was named as Avila Peak, it also had other names such as Montaña a la Mar.

The original name of Avila It came from the city Avila located in Spain, since the greatness of this mountain is compared to the walls that the Spanish city of Avila had in those years.


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