... droughts in north- east; floods and frost in south; deforestation in Amazon basin Special notes: largest country in South America; shares common boun... ...Bank, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IPU, ISO, ITU, Lake Chad Basin Commis- sion, NAM, Niger River Commission, OAU, QIC, UDEAC, UN, UNE... ...Islamic Development Bank, IFAD, ILO, IMF, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, ITU, Lake Chad Basin Commission, NAM, OAU, OGAM, QIC, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO Ec... ...arly enervating climate astride the Equator Terrain: coastal plain, southern basin, central plateau, northern basin Land use: 2% arable land; NEGL% pe... ...umid winters Terrain: mixture of hills and mountains separated by plains and basins Land use: 40% arable land; 1% permanent crops; 13% meadows and pas... ...pical; hot, humid; more mod- erate in highlands Terrain: Andes mountains and Maracaibo lowlands in northwest; central plains (llanos); Guyana highland... ...,835 km unimproved earth Inland waterways: 7,100 km; Rio Orinoco and Lago de Maracaibo accept oceangoing vessels Pipelines: 6,370 km crude oil; 480 km...

... tassels of gold thread, and another cushion of red satin for the feet; a hand basin chased and gilded, with a ewer of the same kind, a very handsome ... ...s on the mainland. Before this time, L'Olonnais and Michel Le Basque had taken Maracaibo and Gibraltar in the Gulf of Venezuela, with a plunder of fou... ... preparations for a new foray. Remembering the easy success of his brethren at Maracaibo and Gibraltar, he determined to make a venture on the mainlan... ... eight ships and five hundred men, and disembarked his troops on the shores of Maracaibo Bay under a heavy fire from the Spanish fort. Moving up to at... ...after all the money possible had in this way been extracted from the people of Maracaibo, Morgan proceeded to Gibraltar, not far away, where the same ... ...tives were landed at the quay from the neighboring islands and the tortures of Maracaibo and Gibraltar were repeated on a far larger scale at Panama. ... ...k a rock with such great force that she was carried over and left resting in a basin between the rock which she had cleared and another that, lifting ...