What is Panela?

There are no additives and each product differs only by the reduction of water content.

In addition to being a food source as rich as honey, panela has been discovered to have some unique medicinal properties, which are well documented but until recently, almost forgotten. Some of these include:

• Whole sugar prevents tooth decay.
• Natural high energy replacement.
• Constipation (in babies), which is very frequent with white sugar, disappears.
• Prevention of nutritious anaemia.
• Whole sugar prevents rickets.
• Thrush or aphthae rarely returns.
• Children are more alive and full of vitality.                                                 Dr. N.H. Beguin, Pronatec S.A. - Switzerland

 

• Healing of both internal and external wounds.
• Closure of contaminated wounds.
• Healing of ulcers.                                                                                         Prof Titular Dr. Gonzalo Reyes G                                                                                                                        - Universidad de Bogota

                                                                                                                       Dr. Luis J. Giraldo - Universidad de Antioquia

• Prevention of wound infection in perforated appendicitis.                         Dr. Am Surg

The Warao Indians (wah-row-oh; say row as in cow) live on the Orinoco River Delta in Venezuela (Map). The Orinoco is wider than the Mississippi. When it reaches the Delta emptying into the Atlantic Ocean, it creates a huge land area composed of many small rivers with numerous islands and marshes.  The Warao Indians live in huts on stilts which usually have a thatched roof but no walls. A fire pit made of clay is in the center and the Indians sleep in hammocks. One year after Columbus discovered the Orinoco Delta, Alonso de Ojeda sailed into the area, saw the huts on stilts over the water and named the area Venezuela or "Little Venice. The only mode of transportation for hundreds of miles is by bongo, or dugout canoe. The name Warao means literally "Boat People." Children here learn to paddle before they can walk.

Origin Myth - The Warao believe men first lived in a sky world where the only animals were birds. Then one day a hunter shot a bird with such force that his arrow pierced the ground of the sky world and continued to the earth below. Peering through the hole and seeing a rich land beneath them, teeming with all manner of game, the hunter attached a long cotton rope to a tree and lowered himself to earth. There he was ultimately joined by his fellows, who finally decided to abandon the sky world and settle permanently on earth. (from Robert L. Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History)

the hammock was invented by Pre-Columbian native inhabitants of the Amazon Basin of South America. It continues to be produced widely throughout that region, including among the Urarina people of the Peruvian Amazon. Though it is unknown who exactly first invented the hammock, many maintain that it was a device created out of tradition and need. The English language derivation of hammock and various European equivalents is borrowed from the Spanish hamaca or hamac around 1700, in turn taken from a Taíno culture Arawakan word (Haiti) meaning "fish net".^[2][3]

Hammocks

Hammocks were first introduced to Europe by Christopher Columbus when he brought many hammocks back to Spain from islands in the present day Bahamas. The earliest hammocks were woven out of bark from a Hamack tree, and later this material was replaced by Sisal plant because it was more abundant.

The mysterious “Relámpago del Catatumbo” (Catatumbo lightning) is a unique natural phenomenon in the world. Located on the mouth of the Catatumbo river at Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela), the phenomenon is a cloud-to-cloud lightning that forms a voltage arc more than five kilometre high during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours a night, and as many as 280 times an hour.

This almost permanent storm occurs over the marshlands where the Catatumbo River feeds into Lake Maracaibo and it is considered the greatest single generator of ozone in the planet, judging from the intensity of the cloud-to-cloud discharge and great frequency. The area sees an estimated 1,176,000 electrical discharges per year, with an intensity of up to 400,000 amperes, and visible up to 400 km away. This is the reason why the storm is also known as the Maracaibo Beacon as light has been used for navigation by ships for ages.

Rafting or whitewater rafting is a challenging recreational activity utilizing a raft to navigate a river or other bodies of water. This is usually done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water, in order to thrill and excite the raft passengers. The development of this activity as a leisure sport has become popular since the mid 1970s.

Rafting is one of the earliest means of transportation, used as a means for shipping people, hunting, and transferring food.

The Island of Barbados is the most easterly in the Caribbean chain of islands (Lesser Antilles). Its splendid isolated location is at Latitude 13 10 N and Longitude 59 32 W. Measuring 23km (14 miles) at its widest point, 34km (21 miles) long and a mere area of 430 square km (166 sq miles). The highest point is 1,100ft (336m) above sea level at Mount Hillaby in St Andrew and the lowest is the Atlantic Ocean (0 m). The population> is approximately 280,946 (2007) and growing. Racially, the island is predominantly African slave-descended blacks. The main religion is Christianity with small groups of Hindus, Muslins and Jews.

Geographically Barbados is north-east of Venezuela or south-east or Miami and is not a part of the Arc of Caribbean islands

 animas are a  state in which the souls of those who have died in grace must expiate their sins.humans it is believe humans can interact with animas by making ritual and praying