San Carlos Island, Maracaibo, Venezuela

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Today, I am going to show a little island located in the Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. I visited this place when I was only a few weeks I had arrived to Maracaibo. I went with some friends, and it was very fun.

This is the port. We were going out in a little ship.

One of the attractions of the island, is The Castle of San Carlos de la Barra which is a construction of colonial Spain. It was built in 1623 with limestone rocks, brought from the Island of Toas, at the entrance to the Maracaibo bar. The purpose of the fort was to protect the pass that connects Lake Maracaibo with the Gulf of Venezuela. At the time when Maracaibo was built, it had been attacked and sacked several times by pirates and the construction of the castle was intended to provide a true defense of the territory that would prevent the entry of pirates to the mainland (It was found in https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_San_Carlos_de_la_Barra).

Here are some landscape about the island.

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