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Venezuelan architecture.
The house in Venezuela. In the nature long before that the man appeared
thousands of insects and birds they had already made amazing houses with
masters. Houses of the Venezuelan cultures primigenias. Even after the barbarism
produced in the beginning of the Spanish conquest of Venezuela. Some native
communities managed to survive holocaust and today we can know its houses,
scattered in all the virgin territory that still is in Venezuela. The Piaroa
house: Formed by a Churuata, name given by the Piaroa of the Orinoco break,
formed by a circular structure in giant pear form taken of palm and very thin
twigs forming a great umbrella that arrives until the ground. This house is one
of the optimized houses more constructed by the Piaroa natives. The Pemona
house: Formed by a Churuata similar to the Piaroa with a central post but of
conical form that does not arrive until the ground. The Warao house of the Delta
of the Orinoco: It is a house of palms and twigs of mangle of two and four
waters. She is palafitica, without walls totally opened, but with singular
detail and is that the floor is made of wood balza and cane, floats in the river
of such way allow that always the floor this a level of the water. The Wahiba
house: In the level ones of it worries and of the Colombian Guariabe one is
extended the Wahiba ethnic group who constructs to the house of palm and bamboo
with a design of rectangular plant with great eaves. It is formed by four waters
with air intake in the lintel. Within the triangle that forms the ceiling takes
between floor that allows that the house has two floors, allowing to give to the
house a use in two times of the year.
When rains come the level one floods and the Wahibos, they
live in the second floor, when the summer arrives lowers and makes its life in
the ground floor, is to say the house in rainy weather is a palafito. The
Paraujana house: The Paraujanos inhabits the peninsula of the Venezuelan Goajira
as much Colombian constructing the Goajira Nation. It has several types of
house: In the mouths of the rivers and manglares of all the Goajira coast
lagoons to way of backwaters form where the paraujanos construct their palafito
of twig of mangle and ceilings of palm with enea walls or own rush of the zone,
forming communities in ordered groupings affluent connected by canoes and rafts.
This type of house has a great importance for Venezuelan history. Because Alonso
de Ojeda the Spanish conqueror when entering the Lake of Maracaibo and seeing
the small palafitas cities compared them with Venice in Italy calling them
Venezuela that it means small Venice. The Motilona house: This is located in the
Mountain range of Perijá in the limits with Colombia. Motilones constructs to
their houses like a great collective house, of form extended with ceilings of
twigs and palm that arrive until the ground. All these ethnic groups are in
danger of extinction or by the arrival by of foreign religious missions that
modify his to them you inhabit Spaniards of high quality between which we will
emphasize beautifulness house of the last century called the Virtues that
conform the complete model the more and that when analyzing its elements.
Monograph sent by: Juan Hernandez. Country: Venezuela. |
