Castillos de Guayana

Bolívar · Venezuela

Castillos de Guayana, Venezuela
Photo: Heribert Dezeo, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Two Spanish forts on the lower Orinoco built to control river access to the interior against Dutch and English raiders. Their bastions stand above the great river near the old town of Guayana la Vieja.

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