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The Orinoco River is the natural outlet for the cattle-region, but the commerce of this region is small.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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Two of these facilities have private ports on the Orinoco River, affording unimpeded access to the Atlantic.
Time to Confront the Tehran-Caracas Axis Roger Noriega 2010
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Others thought him nothing more than a generous playboy living high off his two noble bloodlines—the New York apartment, a summer house on Fishers Island, a chalet in Courchevel—while his father moved among hidden estates in the foothills of the Orinoco River.
AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE DAVID GOODWILLIE 2010
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Two of these facilities have private ports on the Orinoco River, affording unimpeded access to the Atlantic.
Time to Confront the Tehran-Caracas Axis Roger Noriega 2010
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Two of these facilities have private ports on the Orinoco River, affording unimpeded access to the Atlantic.
Time to Confront the Tehran-Caracas Axis Roger Noriega 2010
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The Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt (or Faja del Orinoco) is located in the southern part of the Eastern Venezuelan Basin, to the north of the Orinoco River.
Venezuela 2009
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After two months on the high seas, they reached St. Georges in Granada and in another two months were able to join up with the main rebel camp along the mighty Orinoco River in Angostura, now called Cuidad Bolivar.
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In the coming years, however, its production of conventional petroleum is expected to fall, leaving the country increasingly reliant on the exploitation of large deposits of bitumen in the eastern Orinoco River basin.
Michael T. Klare: It's Official -- The Era of Cheap Oil Is Over 2009
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The news was not particularly unexpected in either Puerto Ordaz when I arrived there late Monday evening, or when I arrived to El Callao (some 200 kilometers further south from Ciudad Guyana on the shores of the giant Orinoco River flowing eastwards to the Atlantic Ocean) early this morning.
Guillermo Adrian: "Not a cat in hell's chance that Crystallex will get the final approval!" 2008
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Mean annual fluvial discharge of the Orinoco River is 36,000 m3 each second, which transports 200,000 tons of sediment yearly.
Guianan mangroves 2008
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