Venezuela

Venezuela is a country on the northern coast of South America. Venezuela's territory covers around 916,445km2 with an estimated population of approximately 29,100,000. Venezuela is considered a state with extremely high biodiversity, with habitats ranging from the Andes mountains in the west to the Amazon Basin rainforest in the south, via extensive llanos plains and Caribbean coast in the center and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.

Did you know that:
1. Venezuela name means "little Venice".
2. The most popular sport in Venezuela is baseball.
3. The biggest number of winners of beauty contests in the world are from Venezuela.
4. There's the longest and the highest roller coaster.
5. Venezuela has a high homicide rate, 49 murders per 100 000 people. In 2009, in the capital for every 100 000 people were killed around 200 people.
6. Lake Maracaibo is the largest in South America.
7. Coast Venezuela discovered Christopher Columbus.
8. Capybara, the largest rodent in the world, inhabiting grassy plains (Llanos) in Venezuela.