Araya Point

Araya Point belongs to the southern Caribbean, where the open sea meets the Venezuelan mainland and the dry Araya Peninsula reaches northward. This is part of the North Atlantic’s Caribbean basin, enclosed loosely by Central America and South America on the west and south, while the Greater Antilles frame the north and the Lesser Antilles stretch along the east. The water is therefore a meeting place for continental coastlines, islands and the passages between them.

The wider Caribbean contains thousands of islands, cays, reefs and shallow banks as well as stretches of mainland. Its name derives from the Caribs, an Indigenous people historically present in the Lesser Antilles and adjacent parts of South America. Winds, currents, reefs and narrow channels conditioned maritime movement long before later political boundaries.

Araya Point shares that character: a continental edge where sailors encounter variable shelter, shallows and the routes linking Venezuela’s coast to the Antillean chains.