World 04 · Pure expedition
The wild peninsula of the west.
DesignGuardian: The Cacique Macanao, with offline GPS audio capsules [D]
The wild peninsula of the west. Dry forest and semi-arid landscape, with an exceptional geology: the high-pressure eclogites, a body of more than one kilometre of Cretaceous rock, outcrop here. The Margarita parrot, emblem of recovery, nests in its ravines and the EcoGuardians watch over it. The visit takes place by day, with a certified guide — exclusivity is the conservation tool.
The World’s zone on the verified chart of the archipelago. The outlines are corridor design; the points are real, sourced places.
Every place with its coordinate and its source, verified one by one.
National Park since 1974 and Ramsar site No. 857 since 1996: a mangrove wetland between Margarita and Macanao.
The western peninsula, joined to Margarita by the La Restinga isthmus.
Margarita’s eclogites formed under high pressure in the Cretaceous (~90–100 Ma) and outcrop on both peninsulas; the largest body, over one kilometre, lies in Macanao. They are one of the Caribbean’s most singular geological windows.
The yellow-shouldered parrot population grew from a minimum of ~650–700 individuals to more than 2,800 in 2026. In Quebrada La Chica, 98 nests were counted and 18 EcoGuardians watch over the nesting season (late March to August).
La Restinga Lagoon has been a Ramsar site since 4 September 1996, with 5,248 hectares: the archipelago’s only international conservation designation.
Macanao’s dry window runs December to April [D]. [D]
The host community is the native guides and the environmental brigade. Its Community Council is constituted in the Pilot Phase [Pr] and receives the community half of the retention.
Today the parrot EcoGuardians — with Provita and Macanao’s communities — sustain the monitoring and reforestation [V].
“An experimental proposal, subject to consultation with communities and experts should the State adopt the SOT.”
The Worlds are a proposal of the SOT Paraguachoa. Communities and experts define their final shape if the State adopts the system: every territorial decision is consulted with those who live it.
The peninsula holds 12,013.85 hectares under the Macanao Wildlife Reserve (Decree 4,545, Official Gazette 42,182 of 3 August 2021), alongside La Restinga Lagoon National Park and its Ramsar site, and the AICOM A-VE-001 caves.
The memory of the Guaiquerí people, cited by page from the Cacique’s archive.
Macanao, “land of the macanas”: the legend gathered by Rosa Acosta names the hardwood trees — yaque, cuica, guayacán — with which the Guaiquerí made their weapons. [O]
F-0103 Narváez, Crónicas de Macanao (2000), p. 79
The Guaiquerí hamlet Abbad placed on the road to Macanao (c. 1774) was El Cercado, the potters’ village, still inhabited by Guaiquerí at the end of the 18th century. [V]
F-0115 Abbad y Lasierra (1773), via Gómez
“An experimental proposal, subject to consultation with communities and experts should the State adopt the SOT.”
Itinerary seeds with what already exists in the territory — without promises.