Travel Guide Puerto Ayacucho

Heat and Wetness: This is what many visitors to Puerto Ayacucho, who are mainly a river port (hence its name) and the centre of all state trade, retain. Founded on a beautiful day of December 1924 by engineer Santiago Aguerrevere and built on a black granite table that preserves it from any seismic movement, the city developed only towards the late 1980 s with the construction of many paved roads to the capital. However, Puerto Ayacucho is not unpleasant, with a pleasant provincial character with its stalls that go out on the streets, its small markets to discover and its interesting ethnic mix. The city of about 120 000 inhabitants is crossed by two avenues that drain most of the traffic, the Orinoco Avenida which crosses the city in the north-south axis and Avenida 23 of Enero in the east-west axis. It is here that you will organise your towers inside Amazonas, that you will take care of everything you need (bolos, antimoustique lotion, photo film, etc.), that you will still enjoy some comfort, if you will pass the Colombian border, so many elements that give the city a last border character. Like every Venezuelan city, Puerto Ayacucho has a pleasant, shaded Isla Bolívar, where a statue of the glorious Simón on its mount is located. There are some government buildings as well as the cathedral and the library where books can be borrowed from the region. The capital of the State of Amazonia is the ideal place to enjoy extreme rafting on the Orinoco. It is also a real return to the sources of the one who decides to venture into the entrailles of the Amazon forest of Venezuela.