The Paria Peninsula () is a large

peninsula A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is only connected to land on one side. Peninsulas exist on each continent. The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula. Etymology The word ''peninsula'' derives , . T ...

on the

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, in the state of

Sucre Sucre (; ) is the ''de jure'' capital city of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the sixth most populous city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of . This relatively high ...

in northern

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 ...

Geography

Separating the Caribbean Sea from the

Gulf of Paria The Gulf of Paria ( ; ) is a shallow ( at its deepest) semi-enclosed inland sea located between the island of Trinidad and the east coast of Venezuela. It separates the two countries by as little as at its narrowest and at its widest points. T ...

, the peninsula is part of the mountain range, in the Venezuelan Coastal Range portion of the northern

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. Its tip is within sight of the naked eye from the island of

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger, more populous island of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the country. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is the southernmost island in ...

. ;National Park Península de Paria National Park protects a section of the peninsula.

Flora and fauna

The Scissor-tailed hummingbird is an endangered hummingbird found only on the Paria Peninsula. It primarily inhabits the interior of damp mature subtropical forest and cloudforest, and is also found at forest edges and in small clearings. In elevation it ranges from 500 to 1,200 m (1,600 to 3,900 ft). Heynen, I., T. Züchner, E. de Juana, P. F. D. Boesman, and C. J. Sharpe (2020). Scissor-tailed Hummingbird (''Hylonympha macrocerca''), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.scthum1.01

Municipalities

As a political subdivision, the Paria Region of the Paria Peninsula is the aggregation of six municipalities within Sucre State: *Bermúdez Municipality – (capital: Carúpano) *Arismendi Municipality – (capital: Río Caribe) *Benítez Municipality – (capital: El Pilar) *Libertador Municipality – (capital: Tunapuy) *Mariño Municipality – (capital: Irapa) *Valdez Municipality – (capital: Güiria)

References

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Geography

Flora and fauna

Municipalities

See also

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