The Cumaraguas
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#venezuela Las cumaraguas is a Salinas type natural site, located northwest of the Paraguana Peninsula near Cabo San Román in the Falcon State of Venezuela.
Access is by land. The indigenous people of that time knew a type of crab with a reddish shell and called it Cumaraguas, of that reddish color are the waters of the Salinas that is why it is called the Cumaraguas.
Salt production in Las Cumaraguas is ideal because it rains little, there are strong winds all year round and it faces the sea.
The salt flats of Las Cumaraguas are pink and reddish.
The color is given by an algae, a microorganism and a small shrimp that lives in the salt flats.
The inhabitants of the sector live by the production of salt, it is their livelihood, heritage and tradition.
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