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Araya
1959790 min
Documentary
Released
Aug 31, 1959
Countries
France, Venezuela
Director
Margot Benacerraf
Productions
Films de l'ArcherCaroni Films C.A.
"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.