Reto Caribe Heritage

Documentary short from my solitary expedition in 2011 kayak paddling from Colombia in the Caribbean to Panama City in the Pacific Ocean and the wonderful experience of crossing the virgin territory of the Darien Jungle through the Kuna Yala, sharing with its people and their fantastic culture.

For the past five years we have been researching the pre-Hispanic navigational routes of our Amerindians, building autochthonous replicas of their Canoes and of course, navigating them, in the first ever Experimental Archaeology expeditions in Venezuela. Amerindian Passion is a summary of the project and its expeditions since its inception.

A thousand years ago, the Valencioid Amerindians who lived in the Lake Valencia basin, paddled the open sea from the mainland to Los Roques in wooden Curiaras (Canoes), an extraordinary adventure of more than 140 kilometers and 30 continuous hours of navigation. An enthusiastic team is preparing to recreate these navigations, made up of adventure

A legend says that in the Orinoco Delta, in one of its furthest pipes, a river wave occurs once a year: El Macareo, appreciated for its rarity, this phenomenon occurs in very few rivers in the world. Mentioned for the first time in Columbus’s diary, seven adventurers decide to embark on a journey to verify

A thousand years ago, the Amerindians living in the basin of Lake Valencia, paddled in the open sea from the mainland to “Los Roques” in “Curiaras” built out of a single tree trunk, an extraordinary adventure of more than 140 kilometers and 35 hours of continuous navigation. An enthusiastic team is ready to recreate these