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(Redirected from Araya Fortress) For other uses, see Araya (disambiguation). Town in Sucre, Venezuela
Araya
Town
Araya is located in VenezuelaArayaArayaLocation within Venezuela
Coordinates: 10°34′N 64°15′W / 10.567°N 64.250°W / 10.567; -64.250
Country Venezuela
StateSucre
Time zoneUTC-4:30 (VST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4:30 (not observed)
Castillo de Araya

Araya is a town located on Venezuela's Caribbean coast, on the westernmost extremity of the Araya Peninsula.

Araya Fortress

The Araya Fortress is a beige-brown stone masonry fortification. The fortification was built in order to defend Araya and the Araya Peninsula against Caribbean pirates.

The Spanish Empire only focused on the pearls that could be found off the coast. Because this area had the largest salt plains in the country, the Dutch and the English started extracting the salt, an important product at that time.

When the pearl harvesting came to an end, the Spanish used the fort to defend the salt plains against the English and the Dutch. The fort was abandoned after a hurricane destroyed the area and the salt reserves were lost.

El Castillo beach

References

  1. Floyd, Troy (1973). The Columbus Dynasty in the Caribbean, 1492-1526. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. pp. 204–206.

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