This is blocking the Orinoco river's navigation canal, causing problems for industry further upstream.

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In 1899, the border dispute between British Guiana and Venezuela was finally settled, Venezuela gaining the area around the mouth of the Orinoco river.

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Now, there are businesses that look like regular business and factories such as tuna and tractor factories that look like regular factories, all of them located in sensitive areas near the Orinoco River (an important connection between Colombia and Venezuela) in Venezuela with access to the Caribbean and to the Atlantic Ocean.

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