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Valley Area:
- 417,000 sq. mi. (1,080,000 km2)
- 70% in Venezuela and 30% in Colombia
River Length:
- 1,400 mi. (2,200 km)
- 20th longest river in the world
Flow Volume:
- 8.9 X 106 acre feet (1.1 X 1012 m3) per year
- Third highest flow volume in the world
Widest Section:
- Barrancas (Delta Amacuro State), 24 mi. (38 km) from shore to shore at high water
Natural Resources:
- 90% of the water resources
- 95% of the hydraulic potential
- 97% of the forest resources
- 10% of gold reserves in the world
- 270,000 million barrels of recoverable oil
- 2.3 billion barrels of bitumen for Orimulsion (an emulsion of crude oil in water used as a fuel in power plants)
- 220 million tons (200 million metric tons) of bauxite
- 50,000 tons (45,000 metric tons) of potential fishing catch per year
Annual Production:
- 750,000 tons (680,000 metric tons) of steel
- 800,000 carats of diamonds
- 18,810 Megawatts of electricity
Areas under Special Administration:
- 9 National Parks (the largest in the country)
- 4 Natural Monuments plus 25 Tepuyes (mesas)
- 1 Wildlife Refuge with a Protected Zone for the Arrau Turtle
- 2 Biosphere Reserves
- 7 Forest Reserves
- 7 Woodland Lots
- 1 Protected Zone in the southern Bolívar State, the largest in the country.
Significant Ecosystems:
- Tropical forest
- Freshwater ecosystems (fluviales and lacustres)
- Savannah (plans and great savannah)
- Tepuy (mesas)
Plants and Animals:
- 57 different types of forests
- 10,000 known species of flowering plants
- More than 2,600 species of vertebrates and hundreds of thousands of invertebrate species
Inhabitants (in Venezuelan section):
- More than 7,000,000 people
- Density: 22.8 people/mi.2 (8.8 people/km2)
- 23 indigenous ethnic groups
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