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Loefling Park
This park is located in the Guayana Avenue in the western sector of the city, on the left side of the Rio Caroni. It was named that way in commemoration of the great Swedish botanist Pedro Loefling, who was the first naturalist to study the flora and fauna of this region. It has an area of 245 hectares, most of this area is available to the public and the rest is a natural area where the animals live freely.
In the Loefling park live a variety of animals such as tigers, monkeys, alligators, water dogs as well as animals in captivity, at the same way it preserves the life of animals that live exclusively in Guyana such as the Orinoco caimans, dantos, babas, deer , báquiros, limpets, monkeys, snakes, fishes, morrocoyes, etc.
Is also can be appreciated in this park a diverse and representative Venezuelan flora among which we can mention the samanes, apamates, mahoganies, oaks, araguaneys, ceibas, caros and yagrumus among others.
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