• The highest waterfall of the world – The Angel Falls (1,002 meters high)
  
  
• The third largest river in South America and also the third largest system in the world. The 10th most extended river in the planet with an average of 30 million liters per second of sweet water –The Orinoco River (2,400 km /1,491 miles).  It covers more than one million square kilometers
  
  
• The Caroní River is one of the rivers of Venezuela that provides the potentiality of hydroelectric power with 67% of power energy supply to the country, reaching 20 kilowatts.  Generating 59.000 gig watts annually
  
  
• The largest lake in Latin America: Maracaibo Lake (13,280 Km²)
  
  
• The longest and highest funicular railway of the world:  In Mérida. Los Andes – The Andes region a complex variety of climate and scenario, with about 5,000 meters above sea level
  
  
• The most ancient rocks on Earth: Guayana’s Massif, Table lands-called Tepuis
  
  
• There are 43 national parks and 21 natural monuments.  With a total combined area equal to 16.04% of the country’s surface
  
  
• Venezuela reserves of light crude oil rank it forth worldwide and in first place reserves of heavy crude oil in the world
  
  
• Iron reserves reach almost 14,600 millions metric tons
  
  
• It has accessible reserve of coal, bauxite, phosphate, zinc, nickel, copper and diamonds
  
  
• Over 2,000 miles (3,500 Km) of coastline to the Caribbean of 1,000 miles (1,700 Km) is sandy and coral-sand beaches
  
  
• 72 islands and keys of varying sizes, most of them are with ample resources for tourism
  
  
• Air travel – Venezuela has over 200 airfields, 11 of them are international airport
  
  
• The Venezuelan forestry industry produces almost exclusively pine and eucalyptus trees
  
  
• Maritime transportation – There are four ferry lines currently in operation, servicing the states of Falcón, Sucre, Anzoátegui and Nueva Esparta
  
  
• The Three Cordilleras

The Andes, Eastern Caribbean, and Central Caribbean ones.  The Former with elevation of up to 16,404 feet (5,000 m) and the highest and longest cable car in the world located in Mérida.

There is El Avila Range in the Central Caribbean Cordillera, located in  the homonymous National Park, which separates Caracas from the Caribbean.  It has another appealing cable car system, which in addition to serves as access to the Humboldt Hotel – an impressive architectural jewel – provides breathtaking views of both the capital city and the Caribbean Sea.

• 300,000 square kilometers (115,830 square miles) of plains (llanos), stretching from the great northwestern mountainous arch and the Coastal Range all the way to the Orinoco River.  The whole llanos region is home to many endangered species such as manatees, caimans, turtles and jaguars.
  
  
  
• Surface transportation – The country has a vast network of well-paved roads and highways.  The nation’s road systems stretch over 53,437 miles of which (30,000 Km) are paved.
  
• Venezuela has 8.5% of tropical forest surface area in Latin America, second only to Brazil, Perú and Bolivia, with a combined total of 65%.  Our country also has a climate suitable for crops and high quality cultivable land, which makes for decreased production costs.
  
  
• Approximately 40.37 million acres (16.34 million hectares) 39 % of forest areas – in the country may be commercially operated.  Of this, 23 million acres (9.3 million hectares) have already been classified as viable for commercial forestry operations.  By 1998, however, only 7.8 % of these surfaces had been developed for production, with the vast opportunities afforded by the sector still untapped.

Sources: Venezuelan Council for Investment Promotion, World Fact Book and Malaysian Foreign Ministry

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