_#_Terrain: mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
_#_Natural resources: crude oil, natural gas, asphalt
_#_Land use: arable land 14%; permanent crops 17%; meadows and pastures 2%; forest and woodland 44%; other 23%; includes irrigated 4%
_#_Environment: outside usual path of hurricanes and other tropical storms
_#_Note: located 11 km from Venezuela
_*People #_Population: 1,285,297 (July 1991), growth rate 1.1% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 21 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 6 deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: - 4 migrants/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Infant mortality rate: 18 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)