Hi/hola, Hivers.
Today I am going to give you a brief walk through the enigmatic dunes of Coro. Although this is a post that I promised you some time ago, I did not want to write it lightly, I have always had the notion that the place where we are born makes us a bit, that it is not an accident to be born in a particular place rather, over time that place ends up becoming part of our being and our personality.
Hoy les voy a dar un breve paseo por los enigmáticos médanos de Coro. Aunque este es un post que les prometí hace ya tempo, no quise escribirlo a la ligera, siempre he tenido la noción de que el lugar en el que nacemos nos hace un poco, que no es implemente un accidente el nacer en un lugar en particular sino que a través del tiempo ese lugar se termina haciendo parte de nuestro ser y nuestra personalidad.
That is why I want to show you the coro dunes, which have been a national park in Venezuela since 1972, the park in addition to including the dunes has a part that faces the sea in which mangroves are protected, it extends throughout the northern area Towards the east of the city of Coro, it has various accesses such as the Monseñor Iturriza promenade, although tourists regularly choose to get off to experience them when, on the road to the peninsula, they manage to see the dunes and get to know them..
Por eso es que quiero mostrarles los médanos de coro, que son un parque nacional de Venezuela desde 1972, el parque además de incluir los médanos tiene una parte que da con el mar en la que se protegen manglares, se extiende por toda la zona norte hacia el oriente de la ciudad de coro, tiene diversos accesos como el paseo Monseñor Iturriza, aunque con regularidad los turistas optan por bajarse a vivirlos cuando por la carretera a la península logra verlas dunas y se disponen a conocerlas.
These photos I took a long time ago, I even uploaded a video that I used for a previous post that was not properly about the dunes but rather about friendship. Los dunes is one of the faces of Coro, perhaps especially the north face, since its incessant dunes have migrated over and over again over the space that contains the roads, consuming them one after the other, sometimes we discover under them roads since the time of the colony more than two hundred years ago.
Estás fotos la tomé hace tiempo, incluso subí un video que use para un post anterior que no trataba propiamente de los médanos sino más bien de la amistad. Los médanos es una de las caras de Coro, quizá sobre todo la cara norte, pues sus incesantes dunas han migrado una y otra vez sobre el espacio que contiene las carreteras consumiéndolas unas tras otras, a veces descubrimos bajo ellas calzadas desde el tiempo de la colonia hace ya más de doscientos años.
The vegetation of the national park is made up of a xerophytic flora, where cacti abound, but they are not the only thing present because there are two trees very typical of this environment, such as cují and yabo, the latter with green and hard bark, which it burned and its highly alkaline ash was mixed with grease to make toilet soap. As for the fauna, it is made up of snakes, insects and some seabirds that cross the dunes to reach the city.
La vegetación del parque nacional está constituida por una flora xerofita, donde los cactus abundan, pero no son lo único presente pues hay dos árboles muy propios de este ambiente como es el cují y el yabo, este segundo de corteza verde y dura, el cual se quemaba y su ceniza altamente alcalina se mezclaba con grasa para hacer jabón de tocador. En cuento a la fauna está constituida por serpientes, insectos y algunas aves marinas que atraviesan las dunas para llegar a la ciudad.
That afternoon I climbed the dunes, alternating each foot while sinking into the sand, to watch the sun as it plunges into the sand is to understand that time inevitably passes. Above the sand burns and burns but if you sink your feet well the temperature is pleasant that has a therapeutic sensation, the cool wind caresses giving a feeling of peace, the sand of the dunes are quite heavy so they do not rise too much, but that run on the skin of the dunes.
Aquella tarde subí las dunas, alternando cada pie mientras se hundía en la arena, mirar el sol mientras se sumerge en la arena es entender que el tiempo pasa inevitablemente. Por encima la arena arde y quema pero si hundes bien los pies la temperatura están agradables que tiene una sensación terapéutica, el viento fresco acaricia dando una sensación de paz, las arenas de los médanos son bastante pesadas por lo que no se elevan demasiado, sino que corren sobre la piel de las dunas.
I like to lie down on the back of a dune to look at the city in the distance, to see how the sun disappears and the city is gradually lighting up, on moonless nights the stars seem to rule the time, the cars are seen on the roads Of course this is my way, there are those who go to the dunes with buguy or sandboard cars, those who take pictures in the springs and those who follow the legends of that place.
Me gusta acostarme sobre el lomo de una duna a mirar la ciudad a la distancia, ver como sol desaparece y la ciudad se va iluminando poco a poco, en las noches sin luna las estrellas parecen gobernar el tiempo, se ven los carros por las carreteras, por supuesto esta es mi manera, hay quienes van a lo médanos con carros buguy o sandboard, quienes se toman fotografías en los ojos de agua y quienes siguen las leyendas de ese lugar.
One of those legends is that somewhere in the dunes an indigenous cemetery is hidden, where the stars can be seen in a better way almost as if you could see the spiritual world, the people of the city sometimes comment on it but He neither goes to the dunes nor dares to think of a place like that, however, it seems beautiful to me that there are things in the collective imagination that seem so great to us in places so close to us.
Una de esas leyendas es la de que en alguna parte de los médanos se encuentra escondido un cementerio indígena, que sobre él se ven las estrellas de mejor manera casi como si pudieses ver el mundo espiritual, la gente de la ciudad lo comenta a veces pero ni va a los médanos ni se atreven a pensar a un lugar así, sin embargo a mí me parece hermoso que haya en el imaginario colectivo cosas que nos parecen tan grandiosas en lugares tan próximos a nosotros.
Hivers, thank you very much for reading, I am still trying very hard to be able to live up to this beautiful community, d the experiences of each one, I still think about the extraordinary work I read in the post of @crosheille that helps us so much newbies. So I will leave you until the next time, when I will probably teach you to play Wonderwall by Oasis.
Hivers, muchas gracias por leer, aún me estoy esforzando mucho por poder estar a la altura de esta hermosa comunidad, d las experiencias de cada uno, aún pienso en el extraordinario trabajo que leí en el post de @crosheille que tanto ayuda a nosotros los novatos. Así que los dejo hasta una próxima ocasión, en que probablemente les enseñe a tocar Wonderwall de Oasis.
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This really is a mysterious place. I love the photos you captured.
The snake part caused alarm in me. 👀 I would be terrified walking through that cacti.
I am glad my post really make an impact on you. Thanks for the mention :)
Hi, @crosheille .
Well, I was a scout when I was little, until more or less adulthood, I have elementary knowledge about snakes and I really do not fear them and I even like them.
I wanted to show you this post, because it was partly thanks to your advice on photography https://peakd.com/@photophile/photophile-picks-318-featured-curated-photos, I'll keep trying.
Have a wonderful day.
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