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Tiempo y Espacio
versión impresa ISSN 1315-9496
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AGUERO, Argenis. Historical notes on the navigation between the rivers Cojedes and Orinocos. Tiempo y Espacio [online]. 2015, vol.25, n.64, pp.405-427. ISSN 1315-9496.
The historical evolution of the use of water ways in what is today Venezuela began, since time immemorial, with the spontaneity and naturalness that characterized the lifestyles of the first human groups, many of whom left for nomadism settle on land plains, thanks to the great rivers and their tributaries, whose riverside were their seat population was achieved. At the beginning of the conquest cojedeñas lands were populated by aboriginal groups; a century after the missionaries arrived to colonize the territory, process based on the use of the indians who inhabited the riverside of the Orinoco and Apure, taken from the great river to tributaries as Cojedes, El Pao o Tinaco, forming a close bond between father river and the cojedeños. In fact, the foundation of the town of El Baúl, in 1744, was executed with aboriginal transferred from the Apure and Orinoco, with clear example of the close historical relationship that has existed between the great river and Cojedes state. In 1830 they used movements from El Baúl, the waterway system Cojedes river, tracing upstream to the current Portuguese state lands, and downstream by several waterways that lead to San Fernando de Apure and Bolívar City. Then in the second half of the nineteenth century there was an important development in the area due to the Venezuelan plains formed by use of Cojedes, Portuguesa, Apure and Orinoco rivers axis. From 1880 steam navigation in Venezuela increased and consequently, there presence of these vessels in the port of El Baúl. The fluvial activity remained until late in the third decade of the twentieth century.
Palabras clave : Orinoco; El Baúl; Cojedes Navigation.