Maracoa

Maracoa was an Indigenous settlement near the confluence of the Atabapo and Guaviare with the upper Orinoco. In 1758 José Solano founded San Fernando de Atabapo on the site during the Spanish expedition to establish boundaries with Portuguese America. The rivers offered routes through a vast forested region, linking the Orinoco to the lands of many Indigenous peoples and to waterways leading toward the Amazon basin.