Astronaut Ivan Vagner captured from ISS the Orinoco Delta, Venezuela.
The Orinoco Delta is a vast river delta of the Orinoco River, located in eastern Venezuela. The delta is fan-shaped, formed by the Orinoco River as it splits into numerous distributaries, called caños, which meander through the delta on their way to the sea. The Orinoco Delta is characterized by being non-centric, lagoon lacking, and oceanic, somewhat similar to the delta of the Niger River. Daily tides bring sea water up the “caños”, causing the “macareo” or pororoca and reversing the flow direction of water, at least on the surface. The predominant vegetation is in the Orinoco Delta swamp forests ecoregion. Along the coast and the river margins there are stretches of Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves, specifically the Guianan mangroves ecoregion. To the west, and closer to the coast, there are patches of the Orinoco wetlands ecoregion. The delta includes large areas of permanent wetlands as well as seasonally-flooded freshwater swamp forests. The river margins of the delta are fringed with mangroves.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Ivan Vagner’s Tweet
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