Ka Ina

Ka Ina is a Venezuelan telenovela written by César Miguel Rondón and produced by Venevisión in 1995. This telenovela lasted 164 episodes and was distributed internationally by Venevisión International. And was hit, becoming broadcast in countries such as the Philippines, United States, Argentina, Spain, among others.

Viviana Gibelli and Jean Carlo Simancas starred as the main protagonists with Hilda Abrahamz as the antagonist. The series is the reunion of Viviana Gibelli & Jean Carlo Simancas after they worked in Por Amarte Tanto in 1993.

Ka Ina means: the whole earth, the earth itself.

Synopsis
Ka Ina tells the story of two women, dangerously linked by superstition, magic and the love of one man. Catalina Miranda and Maniña Yerichana are both beautiful and young. The first is an assertive and independent engineer educated in Europe; the second, the most powerful and feared woman in the jungle, a legendary priestess born to a Dutch gold digger and a Yanomami Indian Princess. Catalina and Maniña will become antagonists because of Ricardo Leon, a mysterious man from the capital city. But there is a fascinating element of magic that makes this rivalry especially interesting. Although they appear to be the same age, Maniña and Catalina are really mother and daughter, a fact that no one knows. A riveting fairy tale filled with ancient folklore and mysterious legends.

Main

 * Jean Carlo Simancas as Ricardo Leon/El Chalanero
 * Viviana Gibelli as Catalina Miranda Funkhütten/Amanaduna
 * Hilda Abrahamz as Maniña Yerichana
 * Julio Alcazar as Dagoberto Miranda
 * Cristina Reyes as Mireya Carvajal #1
 * Fedra López as Mireya Carvajal #2
 * Aroldo Betancourt as Cruz de Jesus/Padre Gamboa

Supporting cast

 * Juan Manuel Montesinos as Fernando Larrazabal
 * Eva Moreno as Tibisay
 * Alberto Marin as Medardo Garañon
 * Ramon Hinojosa as Justiniano Garcia
 * Elisa Escamez as Ingracia Camacho
 * Jose Torres as Tacupay
 * Jose Vieira as Antonio Larrazabal
 * Wilmer Machado as Benito
 * Marisela Buitrago as Lola Lopez
 * Raul Medina as Cabo Prudencio Reyes
 * Umberto Buonocuore as Gaetano di Fillipo
 * Yolanda Muñoz as Vicenta
 * Ivette Dominguez as Deisy Rodriguez
 * Geronimo Gomez as Abel Negron
 * Maria Eugenia Perera as Janet
 * Isabel Herrera as Pauchi
 * Elena Dinisio as Ingrid
 * Zoe Bolivar as Josefa Restrepo
 * Carmelo Lápira as Jairo Pastrana
 * Miguel David Díaz as Misael
 * Lucas Atilano as Washington David Negron (Abel Negron's son)
 * Sebastian Atilano as Jefferson José Negron (Abel Negron's son and Washington's brother)
 * Ledimar Sifuentes as Luz Clarita Camacho
 * Julio Pereira as Dr. Francisco

International Broadcast
This was the only Hispanic telenovela dubbed in English & Cebuano version in the Philippines, broadcast by Citynet Television (now named GTV) & GMA Cebu and Davao. In Citynet, it was dubbed in English through the trends of playing Japanese sci-fi TV series dubbed in English. After Ka Ina ended in Citynet as the first English-dubbed Hispanic telenovela in the said country, Citynet never borrowed any telenovela to be dubbed in English.