Serie 5/11 - Painted Bulls - Valencia - Venezuela [En-Esp]

Plainland bull

English

Another painted bull, another story told with it.

In Venezuela, and other countries, there are some regions known because they are huge plain terrains mostly used for cow breeding, like Texas in U.S.A., or like "pampas" in Argentina. We called them "llanos" here in Venezuela, and one state stands up for its plains, Apure state, let´s talk a little about Apure.

Apure in located in Southwest Venezuela, with frontier limits with Colombia (Colombian "llanos"). Apure uses to be one of the biggest meat and milk producers, the biggest cow and buffalo heards are there in Apure.

Apure inspired Romulo Gallegos to write his famous novel "Doña Bárbara" where he describes this amazing land.

It is known for all these things, but it has amazing sites for tourism too, the amazing Orinoco river flows for Apure and we can find the major Orinoco tributary river, Apure river which it´s 1.000 kms long, in winter someflooded areas very amazing to enjoy, they are known as "[Esteros de Camaguán]"(https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteros_de_Camagu%C3%A1n), there are many plant and animal species there too, and this is the reason many biologist, nature related researchers go there to study them.

In this bull we can see many of these things, we can see "Esteros" and river landscape in both sides, there are animals all over the bull: Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris known as "chigüire, capibara, ", Crocodylus intermedius knows as "Orinoco cocodrile or caiman del orinoco" , Eudocimus ruber or "Corocora", a beautiful blue sky with green and colorful nature sight.

Let me know what you think about this bull, would you like to visit Apure? do you see his smile too?

Note:
They were removed Feb 2023, and now these pictures will be part of urban memories and history.

I could not get any information about creator or creators of these bulls, if you know something about it, write it in the comments, they made amazing art works.