The Guayos

Los Guayos is a Venezuelan town, capital of the Los Guayos Municipality of the Carabobo State in the Central Region of Venezuela, northwest of Lake Valencia. It is part of the urban area of the city of Valencia. It has an estimated population for 2020 of 197,345 inhabitants.

Etymology

Los Guayos owes its name to a phonetic alteration of the indigenous word "uayos", which means gum or resin extracted from the bark of the "huayales". ^{{{Citation required}}}

Geography

The town of Los Guayos is located in the northern part of the municipality of the same name. It is currently connected with other populations that have expanded especially rapidly in recent decades. To the North-Northeast of Los Guayos passes the Caracas-Valencia Highway. The Los Guayos river flows from the Northeast and East to the Southeast.

Climate

The climate is warm, being Tropical Savannah (Aw) according to the Köppen climate classification with maximum temperatures between 28 °C and up to 34 °C in some cases, but during the winter season in the northern hemisphere temperatures drop slightly until reaching an average maximum of 28 °C

History

Historians and anthropologists have not reached a conclusion about the language and classification of the ethnic groups that lived around Lake Valencia and, by extension, in the area of Los Guayos. From some narratives such as those of Oviedo and Baños and those of Pimentel, it can be assumed that in general the ethnic groups in the area were from the Caribbean linguistic family.

The first known encomendero of the Guayo Indians was Captain Gaspar Matute Villalobos, a resident of Nueva Valencia del Rey. When he died and his charge became vacant, it was granted in 1642 to Domingo Vásques de Rojas y Alfaro, as the homonymous son of the field master Domingo Vásquez, then mentioning the Guayos Indians as the Jiraharas nation, in the amount of 'sixty useful Indians' (neither old nor infants count) and towns in the town of San Antonio de los Guayos already for that date.

On February 20, 1694, Don Francisco Berroterán, governor of the Province of Venezuela, called Los Guayos the "town of Indians". The territory was part of the Guayos indigenous tribe.

On June 6, 1710 "Los Guayos" it becomes a parish aid or suffragan parish of Guacara.

In 1751 the residents of Los Guayos joined other Venezuelan populations in the uprising of Francisco de León against the imposition of the Guipuzcoan Company. In 1785 the governor Manuel Torres de Navarra declared Los Guayos as a parish. In May 1812 Francisco de Miranda left an army in the town of Los Guayos to repel royalist forces while he continued the war in other parts of the region. This group is disrupted on May 8 when one of its commanders, a Spaniard, goes over to the side of the monarchist forces. In 1837 the reconstruction of the church concluded.

Media

Radius

• The Voice of the Tacariguas (99.7 FM)
• Radio Vanguardia Popular (96.7 FM.) CLOSED. Out of the air
• Radio Renacer (102.1 FM) WEB: WWW.RADIORENACER.COM.VE CLOSED. Out of the air

TV

• The Guayos tv community television. Digital YouTube LosGuayos Tv
• Turpial TV Los Guayos. Community TV Facebook Turpialtv Losguayos, YouTube Turpial Televisión

Places of interest

San Antonio de Padua Colonial Temple or Los Guayos Church: The church is one of the oldest in Venezuela. Its first construction dates back to 1650, when it served as a church for the Indian town of the area. The current bell tower, with two annexed bodies, dates from 1779.

Zip Code

The Guayos in Carabo

• The Guayos: 2003
• Popular Housing Los Guayos2001