Corocoro Island (Isla Corocoro) is an island near the mouth of the

Amacuro River The Amacuro River is a river in South America. It forms part of the northern section of the international boundary between Venezuela and Guyana. It is part of the Orinoco River basin. The river boundary is a part of the Guyana-Venezuela border dis ...

and in the delta of the

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. The northernmost part of the land border between

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and

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

runs through the island. It is one of the few islands that is divided between more than one

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. The vast majority of the island is Venezuelan territory (610 square kilometers). The north side of the island is the

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and the south side is the

. The Island was claimed by

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but mostly ceded to

, following the Arbitral Award of 1899. Corocoro Island contains the northernmost point of the disputed border with

, an area referred to instead as Guayana Esequiba by

Reserve

The Venezuelan-controlled part of 61,000 hectares or 610

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is part of a natural reserve protected by the Venezuelan government, called the Imataca Reserve, and is part of the so-called Coastal Protection Zone.

Reserve

See also