Araya

Release Date: 1959-08-31

Runtime: 90

Languages: Español

Rating: 7

Votes: 31

Genres: Documentary

Director: Margot Benacerraf

Description: "Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. In images..."Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. In images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.Read More

Production Companies:

Films de l'Archer

Caroni Films C.A.