Infinity Visuals - Isla La Tortuga, Venezuela - Aerial Footage HD
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Isla Tortuga is a Venezuelan-controlled island off the country's Caribbean coast, not to be confused with the Haitian island of the same name. The 156 square km (about 60 square mi.) island is situated a short distance off the middle part of the coast, northeast of capital city Caracas. Frequented by various European colonists over the centuries, the island has no permanent inhabitants. That said, as you'll see from this drone video by contributor DJIvzla Drone it is not devoid of a human presence!
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We are glad to present to you our video of La tortuga, hope you enjoy our work using a 3DR Solo exclusively to make this. Here a little summary of this amazing place La Tortuga Island (in Spanish: Isla La Tortuga ; "La Tortuga" means "the turtle") is an uninhabited island of Venezuela, the largest in the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela. It is part of a group of islands that include the Tortuguillos and Cayo Herradura The island was visited by Amerindians from the coast of present-day Venezuela to exploit its natural resources including salt, fish and turtles, well before Spanish colonization of the New World. It is not known by which European explorer the island was first seen and named, yet the name derives from the large numbers of marine turtles that come to lay eggs on its long sandy beaches every year. The island was seasonally visited by the Dutch who came there to exploit the salt evaporation ponds on the east of the island between 1624 and 1638. They constructed a fort on the island to guard their salt works and repel the Spanish who were eager to keep the Dutch off the island. They were definitively expelled in 1638 when the Spanish governor of Cumaná, Benito Arias Montano, and his forces destroyed their facilities and flooded the salt pans. Since then, with the exception of fishermen who visit the island seasonally, the island has remained unpopulated and largely untouched.