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Key Details

Release StatusReleased
Release Date1959-08-31
Languagees
Runtime1h 30m
Production

Films de l'Archer, Caroni Films C.A.

7.2(33)
•1959•1h 30m

Araya

Overview

"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.

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