La Esmeralda (Ye'kuana: Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 8de Civrieux, Marc (1980), David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, page 187 or Moreira, Maria Geralda de Almeida (2005) Em busca do território perdido: o reconhecimento daterra indígena Kaxarari no Brasil e da terra Ye'kuana do Alto Orinoco na Venezuela (1970-1002), page 158) is a small settlement in and the capital of Alto Orinoco Municipality in Venezuela’s Amazonas State. The name means “the emerald”. It is located on the shore of the Orinoco river, only 9 miles from the Casiquiare canal bifurcation that links it to the Amazon River.
The settlement contains about a hundred homes, a school, an airfield and a military outpost.
Geography It is located on the shore of the Orinoco river, only 9 miles from the Casiquiare canal bifurcation that links it to the Amazon River. Climate La Esmeralda has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.
References
External links
General information about Amazonas state in Spanish from the national government