Los Médanos de Coro National Park in Venezuela

Los Médanos de Coro is a national park located in the Falcón state, in the jurisdiction of the Miranda, Colina and Falcón municipalities, in northwestern Venezuela. Its most important area is circumscribed around the isthmus, on the road to the Paraguaná Peninsula on the north side of the city of Santa Ana de Coro. The isthmus comprises a strip 30 km long by 5 km wide. It has an average height of 20 m s. n. m. (meters above sea level). Its sandy accumulations move in a changing way due to the action of the trade winds that blow from east to west. Los Médanos de Coro were declared a national park on February 6, 1974, covering an area of 91,280 hectares, of which 42,160 are continental lands and 49,120 are marine areas.1