Araya

Araya

Araya

Release date : 1959-08-31

Production country :

France,

Venezuela

Production company :

Films de l'Archer,

Caroni Films C.A.

Status : Released

Durasi : 90 Min.

Popularity : 2.748

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Total Vote : 31

"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.