Paria Peninsula

The Paria Peninsula (Spanish: Península de Paria) is a large peninsula on the Caribbean Sea, in the state of Sucre in northern Venezuela.

Geography

Separating the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Paria, the peninsula is part of the Serranía del Litoral mountain range, in the Venezuelan Coastal Range portion of the northern Andes. Its tip is within sight of the naked eye from the island of Trinidad.^[1]

National Park

Península de Paria National Park protects a section of the peninsula.

Flora & Fauna

The Scissor-tailed hummingbird is an endangered hummingbird found only on the Paria Peninsula. It primarily inhabits the interior of damp mature subtropical forest and cloudforest, and is also found at forest edges and in small clearings. In elevation it ranges from 500 to 1,200 m (1,600 to 3,900 ft). ^[2]

Municipalities

As a political subdivision, the Paria Region of the Paria Peninsula is the aggregation of six municipalities within Sucre State:

Bermúdez Municipality – (capital: Carúpano)
Arismendi Municipality – (capital: Río Caribe)
Benítez Municipality – (capital: El Pilar)
Libertador Municipality – (capital: Tunapuy)
Mariño Municipality – (capital: Irapa)
Valdez Municipality – (capital: Güiria)

References

^ Robertson, Edward (4 July 1995). "Paria Peninsula". Last Frontiers. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
^ Heynen, I., T. Züchner, E. de Juana, P. F. D. Boesman, and C. J. Sharpe (2020). Scissor-tailed Hummingbird (Hylonympha macrocerca), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.scthum1.01