TM image showing the delta plain near Tucupita. Caño Manamo flows north and bifurcates into two separate channels: Caño Manamo (left) and Caño Manamito (right). The blue and orange patchwork pattern on the image represents agricultural areas near Tucupita, and the brown hues east of Tucupita correspond to forested flood basins. Caño Tucupita is a distributary of Caño Manamo that exits the channel and flows northeast at the town of Tucupita. Caño Tucupita probably occupies an abandoned Late Holocene channel belt of a Caño Manamo-size river.