Guacara

Guacara (officially called San Agustín de Guacara), is a Venezuelan city, capital of the Guacara Municipality, of the Carabobo State in the Central Region of Venezuela. It was first founded as a town of Indians in 1624 under the name of San Agustín de Guacara. It is part of the Metropolitan Area of Valencia (Greater Valencia), with which it forms a conurbation where the most important industrial areas of Venezuela are located.

It is located at 438 m s. no. m., to the northeast of Lake Valencia and is located in the passage of the Autopista Regional del Centro (main and busiest highway in the country) that connects the cities of Caracas, Maracay and Valencia, just 10 km from it; which has helped it grow as it is an obligatory step for a large part of the commerce of the Central Region of Venezuela. It has a population for 2016 of 194,009 inhabitants.

Toponymy

Guacara is an indigenous word. "The main Indian, Gaicaro, gave its name to the town of Guacara. The priests of Valencia refer to this doctrine in 1579, a commission given to Juan González Morillo, Jusepe Antillano and Diego Sánchez, given this commission in 1579 with the inclusion of the principal Vira, Guayaco, Arai and Guaicar. In 1625, Herrera obtained the encomienda de indios Guayos y Guaneguanes, with the title of Guacara. It is presumable that the name of Guaicaro comes from the cumana-goto 'guakara', a voice that exists in several Caribbean languages in the meaning of heron, white heron". (Lisandro Alvarado. ob. cit. p 385).

Guacara, "...the voice seems to be of foreign origin (Quichua or Guarani) where the words 'guaca' and 'ara' that also appear in the Caquetío dialect... that word 'guaca' means 'hidden treasure' (huaca or jug, inside which it was common to find human bones..." (Briceño Enríquez. ob. cit. pp 370 371).

History

The first settlement located in Morro de Guacara dates back 4,500 years. The rise of the waters to the coast caused the human population to leave that area. After a long period of depopulation, human groups (350) settled again as the waters of Lake Tacarigua or Lake Valencia descended. Guacara and other riverside populations owe their existence to this cycle of rising and falling waters.

By the year 1620, Guacara already existed as an Indian town called San Agustín de Guacara with its bahareque chapel and thatched roofs, which had been built in the year 1607, since for that year there was already a baptism book with the signature of Fr. Gonzalo de Acuna.

The foundation of the City of Guacara as a Parish motivates discussions. Traditionally, the year 1624 is taken as the founding date of the Parish, the date when the first baptismal inscriptions appear, thus confusing the existence of baptismal notebooks in the churches of some towns, with the erection of those same churches. in parishes.. From Doctrina Guacara passed to Pueblo, always of Indians, on February 20, 1694...Guacara had thatched churches from very distant times, but not as a Parish but as a Doctrine of Indians. Archbishop Ibarra ordered that the Town of Guacara was no longer Doctrine of Indians, but a town of Spaniards and other castes and elevated it to a Parish on October 8, 1803". (Torcuato Manzo Núñez. op. cit. pp 178 179).

Referred to by Telasco Macpherson. ob. cit. p40 as "Municipality of the same District, with 1,197 houses and 5,815 inhabitants, distributed among the main city and the following neighborhoods: Chacao, Caribe, Saladillo, Cercadito, Tigre, Morro, Mocundito, Torumo, Horno de Cal, La Mora, Tapiaca, Nepe, Nepe Abajo (two sites), Indio Negro, Ñaraulí and Cabeza de Vaca; this Municipality already had for the year 1781, 446 houses and 3,080 inhabitants".

Francisco Berroterán declared Guacara a city on February 20, 1694. In the opinion of Torcuato Manzo Núñez, Guacara as a city was founded on February 20, 1694, by Governor Francisco Berroterán. As a Parish it was created on October 8, 1803. In any case, whatever the date of Guacara's foundation, this is one of the typical cases of 'refoundation' of towns in Venezuela, as well as San Diego and Los Guayos in the Municipality of Valencia. If taken as the date of 'foundation' on February 20, 1694 and its permanence as 'pueblo de los indios' Until October 8, 1803, it is evident that for more than a century it was a place of 'indoctrination' of the Indians, which indicates the existence of these settlers in the area before the arrival of the Spanish; evidence that is consolidated if the presence of material remains in great magnitude in the entire area is taken into account; therefore Guacara has as its 'foundation' Spanish, or rather 'refundación' the year 1694, but its existence goes back many centuries before the arrival of the Spanish.

Guacara begins its formation as a human group as a consequence of the descent of Lake Tacarigua. The antiquity of the first settlement located in the 'Morro de Guacara' dates back 4500 years; the rise of the waters to level 440 caused the human population to leave this area. After a long period of depopulation, human groups settled again (360 AD) as the waters of Lake Tacarigua descended. Guacara and other riverside populations owe their existence to this cyclical rise and fall of the waters.

After the discovery by the Spanish of the Tacariguas Lake, the advance of the Europeans began throughout its surroundings. Once established in the proximities of the lake, "the Indians that remained in the jurisdiction of Valencia were organized into Encomiendas and in them they were grouped to be indoctrinated by missionary priests who were called Doctrinal Priests... By the middle of the In the 16th century, there were seven Encomiendas within the limits of Valencia and the Indians from them were grouped into three communities or doctrines that later became the towns of Guacara, San Diego and Los Guayos". (Torcuato Manzo Núñez. op. cit. p46).

By the late 1600s, Guacara had already taken on the shape and characteristics of a town. On February 20, 1694, Governor Francisco Berroterán turned it into a city, assigning a doctrine priest to it. Guacara, like the rest of the Indian towns, was subject to strict legislation that prevented their growth and tied them to the piece of land they cultivated. This legislation originated great conflicts since the Indians appropriated the lands that emerged as Lake Tacarigua receded. In 1799 the City of Guacara, by means of a judicial decision, was transformed into a town of Spaniards and free residents. By decision of the Royal Court, the lands of the City of Guacara became the property of the Marqués del Toro, for which the indigenous people were ordered to move to Los Guayos and build their homes there. The indigenous expressed their opposition and legally claimed possession of their lands through the authorities of the Indian people: Mauricio López, José de La Cruz and Juan J. Caricote. Given this fact, the Marqués del Toro led to their imprisonment and exile.

In these lands, the Marqués del Toro established the Mocundo hacienda, a word of Meregoto origin that means 'what is hidden'; This hacienda, on whose lands a large quantity of sugar cane was produced, housed the Baron de Humboldt in his immense house, a building that pleasantly impressed him, as well as its belvedere or viewpoint, from where he traced the oldest known coordinates of the City of Guacara. At the beginning of the XIX century, the jeweler Viccenzo Wallis arrived in the City of Guacara, who little by little acquired land where he planted indigo until he became the owner of the City of Guacara, with the exception of the Vigirima farm.

Chronologically, the history of the City of Guacara can be summarized as follows: Since time immemorial, it was populated by the indigenous people who contributed to the development of the Valencia or Valencioide culture until 1555. From 1555 to 1604, lands owned by Alonso Díaz Moreno and his heirs. In 1625 it became the property of Agustín Nicolás Herrera and Archbishop Ibarra as a commendation. 1694, it becomes the town of the Indians. 1799 it is transformed into a town of whites and free neighbors. In 1803, the white town is elevated to the category of Parish. 1864, is elevated to the category of District.

The City of Guacara is registered by Bishop Martí as "San Agustín de Guacara. This is populated by doctrine of the tributary Indians. Inhabitants: Spanish neighbors and Indian inhabitants within the town: Whites: 924. Indians: 569 in 132 houses with 155 families. Browns 921, Blacks 36, Slaves 630. Total: 3,080. Other castes outside the town: Houses: 235. Families: 298. Spanish neighbors and other castes within the town. Houses 79. Families 91". (Oswaldo Feo Caballero. ob. cit. p31).

The City of Guacara is registered by Telasco Macpherson. ob. cit. p 40 as "Head city of the District of his name. Its foundation dates back to the 17th century, by a community of indigenous people; It is located to the east of Valencia, about 14 kilometers away, near the lagoon, it is very poor in terms of water, since it is barely enough for its current population; its climate is temperate and healthy; There are still the ruins of the beautiful house that the Marqués del Toro began to build in that city, thinking of fixing it as his residence, but which he left unfinished. This city today consists of 602 houses and 3,077 inhabitants".

The San Agustín de Guacara parish exercised ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the indigenous communities of San Antonio de los Guayos and San Diego de Alcalá, located to the west of the town. It was an indigenous town that Captain Vicente Díaz found at the foot of El Toco hill and on the banks of the Vigirima stream.

In these lands, the Marqués del Toro established the Mocundo hacienda (a word of Meregoto origin that means "what is hidden"). This hacienda, on whose lands large quantities of sugar cane were produced, housed the scientist Alexander von Humboldt in his immense house, who arrived there on February 27, 1800. The building impressed him pleasantly, as did its belvedere or viewpoint., from where he traced the oldest known coordinates of the City of Guacara.

The City of Guacara was the scene of the War of Independence in which important figures related to Guacara such as the Marqués del Toro and General Diego Ibarra, aide-de-camp of the Libertador intervened. Guacara was shaken by the historic earthquake of Holy Thursday of 1812, with which its church collapsed and the priest celebrated mass temporarily in the house of the Marqués del Toro. Guacara houses Colonel Uztáriz when he has to leave Valencia, which is taken by Monteverde on May 3, 1812.

City of Guacara

Anthem

The Hymn of Guacara was approved by the illustrious municipal council in an extraordinary session on March 29, 1996. It contains 3 stanzas and 1 chorus with music by Jesús Negrón and lyrics by Nardo Toro.

Hymn of the municipality of Guacara

(Coro)

Guacara, the hidden treasure

The land that the Indian lab

Mystery of the forbidden valley

A heritage that God gave us. (Bis)

I

Idilio de vida sonriente

Egregies of immortal glory,

Ibarra the eminent son

He saw his ideal exalted.

Magic of time and space

Sublime floral charm

Where the remnant is hidden

with gentle and blue celestial.

II

City of rock art

Refuge of the divine soul

Laguna de los Tacariguas

Semblance of the rising sun.

Today tomorrow and forever

It will be the Christ of the violets

The cult of the parishioners

and muse of the poets.

III

Way of faith and hope

Cultivation, work and progress

Preagio de un nuevo tiempo

Forged in your lontananza.

Dance a devil his dance

and exalts his integrity,

the blow of a tangle

with songs of love and peace.

Climate

• Warm temperature with an average of 28 °C to 38 °C, seasoned by the moderating effect of the Lakes of Valencias.

Relief

The north of Guacara Municipality is mountainous and forms part of the Coastal Range. The southern zone is flatter and extends to the shores of Lake Tacarigua or Lake Valencia.

Economic activities

It is related to the city of Valencia.

It has manufacturing centers derived from the automotive, metal-mechanic, textile, and food processing industries, pharmaceuticals, and important commercial and banking functions.

Despite its small size, the City of Guacara is considered one of the industrial engines of Venezuela, accounting for almost 5% of the industrial production apparatus of the entire country, with a number of companies.

Places of interest

Plaza Bolívar de Guacara

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• Piedra Pintada Archaeological Park is part of the San Esteban National Park, located in the Tronconero Sector of Vigirima, in the municipality of Guacara. It is an important set of petroglyphs, menhires and archaeological remains belonging to one of the Arahuacas tribes. Since 1996, a study was carried out which included an inventory and comprehensive study of petroglyphs; archaeological excavations; a museum guide; training of guides; exhibition modules and a preliminary draft of interpretation paths, the latter is still in the process of realization. This activity and project has been endorsed and supervised by the Cultural Heritage Institute. The megalithic archaeological complex of Stones Pintadas, Vigirima is protected by the law of safeguarding cultural heritage.

• St. Augustine Cathedral downtown. It is worth noting that the City of Guacara had some churches of the country from the first decade of the century.XVII; however, the first church to be heard is that built by Father Manuel Pérez in 1624. These pajizas churches tended to disappear as the masonry were being built, and the first of these was built by Don Agustín Nicolás de Herrera in 1687, on the site that today occupies, but was completely destroyed by the earthquake of 1812. This was reported by the priest of the time by Archbishop Colly Prat clarifying that he had moved to say Mass in the new house of the Marquis del Toro, until he built a caney to later raise a new church, which began to build in 1845. In the church of Guacara is the Christ of the VioletsThe one to whom Simon Bolivar asked for grace to overcome in the Battle of Vigirima on November 25, 1813, carried out by the illustrious José Félix Ribas who, with his battalion of warrior students, defeats in Vigirima, Colonel Solomon and his regiment of Granada.

• Plaza Bolívar de Guacara downtown. The space currently occupied by Plaza Bolívar de Guacara belonged to the second half of the centuryXIX to the Wallis family and was used by the athletes of that time in the game of the ball with a quote, without a doubt a record of our modern baseball and who later became the alameda “Ibarra Vicente Wallis” in 1880 arborizándole and building gardens. By 1884 this alameda was transformed into Ibarra Park by agreement of the Municipal Council, in which it considered that the family was praised, especially the Archbishop Francisco de Ibarra and Herrera, the first archbishop of Venezuela, and his two nephews: Diego, who was the first Edecán of the Libertador, and Andrés, who accompanied him in his last moments. Thus he remained until 1948, when he decreed from the municipality he was appointed Plaza Bolivar.

• The Fifth Archaeological House Pimentel in Vigirima

• Monument of Dr. José Gregorio Hernández in the distributor Black First of the Regional Autopista of the Center

• Rio Vigirima

Higher Education

• National Polytechnic University of the Bolivarian Armed Forces (UNEFA)

• Technological University of the Centre (UNITEC)

• Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV)

• University Institute of Industrial Technology (IUTI)

• Professional Training Center Jesus Worker (CFPJO)

• National Institute for Socialist Education (INCES)

• Bolivar Training and Training Centre (CEFORCAB)

• Institute Jack Computer

• INSYSCOM

Health

• Polyclinic Guacara

• Dr. Hospital. Miguel Malpica

• Centro Clínico de Especialidades Quirúrgicas Guacara (24 h) in the center of Guacara

• Clínica Nuestra Señora de Coromoto

• Clinic María Auxiliadora

• Social Security in the Yagua area

• Comprehensive Diagnostic Medical Center (CMDI)

• Comprehensive Rehabilitation Centre (CRI)

Shopping centers

• C.C. Guacara Plaza

• C.C. Painted stone

• C.C. Guacara

• C.C. Paseo Guacara

• C.C. Alliance Mall

• C.C. Unicentro

• C.C. Central Guacara

• C.C. Osaka

• C.C. HiperGalerias Guacara

• C.C. Mercasol

• C.C. Prisma

Media

FM:

• 88.5 Gabana Estéreo
• 90.1 Julian's Stereo
• 90.9 Original
• 93.1 Sounds
• 93.7 Sensational
• 94.7 Blessing (Antigua Olímpica/Exitosa)
• 97.1 Satisfied Stereo (Circuito DP Radio)
• 98.3 Bicentennial
• 100.3 Enamorada Estéreo (Circuito DP Radio)
• 101.3 Heredad
• 101.9 This frequency in its beginnings conveyed from the Urbanization Ciudad Alianza de Guacara known as "Rumbera"; then moved to the city of Valencia
• 102.9 Stereo Guacara (Circuito DP Radio)
• 105.3 Radio Union (Antigua Éxitos / Digital / Satellite). Transmitting now from Valencia
• 105.7 / 105.9 Alternative
• 106.5 Salsa FM

AM:

• 1430 Satellite Radio (The Station of the Two Capitals) Today outside the air replaces Union Radio

Transportation

The Autopista regional del centro (Autopista Caracas-Valencia) passes through the southern part of the municipality. The Autopista Variante Guacara - Bárbula connects the municipality with Naguanagua, San Diego, the northern zone of Valencia, and the Caracas - Valencia National Highway.

It has bus units and suburban car lines that cover all routes to all parts of the municipality, and urban bus lines that cover routes outside the municipality to other municipalities in the state and outside of it. In addition to taxi lines in all parts of the municipality.

In addition, a railway of the National Railway System is currently being built that covers several routes from Caracas passing through Miranda State, Aragua State and Carabobo State, in the latter crossing the municipalities of San Joaquín, Mariara and mainly Guacara to the north of this municipality, until reaching Puerto Cabello.

Demographics

Urbanizations

• Urbanization Ciudad Alianza (Fundada el 2 de septiembre de 1965 y es eleva a la categoría de Parroquia urbano del Municipio Guacara por disposición de la Asamblea Legislative del Estado, el 27 de junio de 1988)
• Urbanisation El Saman
• Urbanisation Los Apamates
• Indian Treasury Urbanization
• Urbanism La Floresta
• Urbanization The Oranges
• Urbanization Los Naranjillos
• Urbanization The Prado
• Urbanisation Lago Jardin
• Urbanization Pinted Stone
• Urbanization Augusto Malavé Villalba
• Urbanization Loma Linda
• Urbanization New Guacara
• Urbanization El Turumo
• Urbanization Villa Alianza
• Urbanization Salt Water
• Urbanization La Floresta
• Urbanization Laurencio Silva
• Urbanisation El Toco
• Tricentennial Urbanization
• Urbanisation La Ceiba
• Urbanization Amazonia
• Urbanization Villa Guacara
• Urbanization Yagua Valleys
• Prados del Lago Urbanization
• Other

Popular Neighborhoods or Urbanization

• Sector Simon Bolivar (south)
• Urbanization The Coromoto
• Guaicaipuro Urbanization
• Urbanization God Almighty
• Black neighborhood first
• Barrio La Libertad
• Barrio La Juventud I
• Barrio La Juventud II
• Barrio 19 July
• Barrio Araguita
• Barrio San Agustín
• Barrio 13 de mayo
• Barrio 1 de mayo
• Barrio La Emboscada
• Barrio Tronconero
• Barrio El Sisal
• Barrio Quebrada Honda
• Barrio Los Mangos
• Barrio Obrero
• Barrio La Florida
• La Floresta
• Barrio El Libertador
• Barrio Santa Eduviges
• Barrio La Línea
• Barrio Macondo
• Barrio Los Mangos
• Barrio El Placer
• Barrio La Tigrera
• Barrio Las Tuniías
• Barrio La Veguita
• Barrio Rafael Caldera
• Sector Valles de Yagua
• Barrio La Coromoto
• Barrio San Rafael
• Barrio Among others
• Barrio the company
• Bolivar neighborhood
• Barrio Diego Ibarra

Holidays and celebrations

Every August 28th is celebrated the "Día de San Agustín" patron saint of Guacara to whom it owes its name and masses and processions are held in honor of the saint.

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Cardinal Points

Northwest: Municipality Puerto Cabello	North: Municipality Puerto Cabello	Northeast: Aragua State
West: Municipality San Diego		This: Municipality San Joaquín
Southwest: Municipality Los Guayos	South: Lake Tacarigua or Lake of Valencia	Sureste: Lake Tacarigua or Lake of Valencia