This January 7th 2011, I’m going to talk about a little bit about what we learned in class. Today we have had a brief glance of what Google Earth is, what can you do with it and how can you use it to explore around. We have been given a task of searching some places, pictures, buildings, or anything you can find on Goggle Earth that relates to your winter term topic.
I found This assignment really easy because based on the fact that my topic is Venezuela, you have many places related on Google Earth. But I translate this as a gate or opportunity to find pictures of the landscape of the country.
In Venezuela you can find a wide variety of landscape. If you go north to the sea you find places like Los “Roques” or “La Tortuga“where the sea is the main stunning scenery. If you go North-west you will find “Los Medanos de Coro” where is a kind of a deserted sand hills where pretty much takes you to a desert. If you keep on going west you encounter Maracaibo’s Lake and its bridge which is 8.7 km long. Heading south-east of Maracaibo’s lake, you’ll reach the Andes; which is the beginning of a series of high mountains, and also the only place in Venezuela where you can find snow. Hitting west is the Amazonas the largest forest in the world and hidden in the dense forest is the tallest fall in the world “The Angels falls”.
