Cumaripa Reservoir Recreational Park

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The Cumaripa Reservoir Recreational Park (in Spanish: Parque de Recreación Embalse Cumaripa), also known as Cumaripa Park or simply Cumaripa, is one of five dams in Yaracuy State and a Venezuelan park, serving as the most significant water reservoir in the state. Located at a site called Faltriquera

, it is primarily formed by the damming of the Yaracuy River, southeast of Chivacoa, Yaracuy, Venezuela. Positioned 4 km downstream from the Cumaripa Bridge, near the road connecting Chivacoa and Nirgua, it mainly floods lands in the Bruzual Municipality. It is also known as the Ing. Francisco C. Amelinck Reservoir, named after its chief civil engineer. The reservoir has a normal capacity of 63.82 hm³, with an average annual runoff of 57.26 hm³, and a maximum capacity of 86.75 hm³. It covers an area of 850.75 hectares. Inaugurated in 1971, it currently supplies drinking water to San Felipe and Cocorote, supports irrigation for 1,600 hectares across the Bruzual, Sucre, Urachiche, and San Felipe municipalities, and controls flooding, sediment, and pollution.

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