A thousand years ago, the Valencioid Amerindians who lived in the Lake Valencia basin, paddled the open sea from the mainland to Los Roques in wooden Curiaras (Canoes), an extraordinary adventure of more than 140 kilometers and 30 continuous hours of navigation.

An enthusiastic team is preparing to recreate these navigations, made up of adventure athletes who will go on La Curiara, as well as archaeologists and scientists who ensure that everything is done in the most reliable way possible and with the necessary rigor.

The process faces hundreds of difficulties, such as forming a team of 20 crew members who trained very hard for a couple of years to prepare properly, do all the pertinent tests at sea with the Curiara and others of a more pragmatic nature, such as when it’s discovered with alarm, that manufacturing the right Curiara, may be the greatest of its difficulties, since this tradition faces its imminent extinction, when the last of the very old "Moyotus", or master manufacturers of Curiaras, die.