UNIT 11 "IT'S A VERY EXCITING CITY"

Ciudad Bolivar

Ciudad Bolivar’s is famous for the highest waterfall in our jungle. It is “Salto Angel” to which comes from Auyan-Tepui and lances her water at a height of 980 mts. Salto Angel’s waterfall has got this name for Its discoverer Jimmy Angel. Among Ciudad Bolivar typical foods we have casabas, carapacho of Morrocoy, and bachaco culon that is a powerful afrodisiac.

Maracaibo

Maracaibo’s touristic attractives is General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge; It rises on Maracaibo’s Lake and It unique in the world for having been built with precompressed concrete. Its typical foods are cachapa, bollitos pelones, mandoca and tequeños.

monument to the Virgin of chiquinquira

VALLEDUPAR.

Valledupar is the capital of the deparment of Cesar- Colombia. Valledupar is well known internationally as the city of Holy Kings and World wide Capital of the Vallenato. It is a young city full of energy and desire of progress.



Valledupar still conserves the colonial magical enchantment framed around the Alfonzo Lopez Plaza and whoever arrives at the World wide Capital of the Vallenato must visit places like:

The Park of the Vallenata Legend.

Church of the Conception.

The Convent of Santo Domingo.

Alfonso López Plaza, with its platform Francisco El Hombre and his Colonial Architectonic frame.

The Badillo River.

The Guatapurí River.

The Guatapurí River is the main touristic site of Valledupar with its Balneario Hurtado, it's considerade as the most beautiful River of Colombia by its crystalline and majestic waters which attract its visitors to enjoy its exuberant tropical vegetation.