'Discoverie of the large, rich and bewtyfull empyre'

Its position on the confluence of the Orinoco and the Caroní rivers marks the place where the Indian chief Topiawari had his camp, which Sir Walter Raleigh described in his "Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana". The natural scenery is spectacular, I had never seen skies like these. The raw energy of the landscape is equalled only by the monumentality of the industrial area itself.