Paria Peninsula

The Paria Peninsula, known as Península de Paria in Spanish, is a skinny peninsula jutting horizontally into the Caribbean Sea from VENEZUELA's mainland. It is in Northeast Venezuela to be exact and part of the state of Sucre. It is south of the Caribbean Sea and north of the Gulf of Paria. The peninsula is also west of Trinidad and Tobago; between the two countries, there is an interestingly named water body called Dragon's Mouths. The easternmost tip of Paria Peninsula is Punta Peñas. Communities on the peninsula include Irapa, Guiria, Macuro, Puerto de Hierro, and Yoco. For your information, there is another major peninsula in Venezuela, called Paraguaná.