Travel Guide Barquisimeto

Don Juan de Villegas first came to look after the mine of Buría, which one of his friends from Coro discovered. In 1561, the new city was "visited" by Lope de Aguirre who was pilla and burned it. Harder was the crank back for this tyrant, who after leaving Peru on the Amazon, then the Orinoco to plunder Margarita and Valencia, was finally hanged in Barquisimeto the same year! But the yield was such that the conquistador and his few men founded Nueva Segovia and came from blacks to exploit the mine. One year later, the slaves ended up and the massacred massacred. The Spanish survivors were therefore going to base the city further, in the place of Varquisimeto ("ash", in Indian, because of the colour of the nearby river waters, the Turbio). Definitively founded in 1563, the country's fourth largest city is the agricultural centre of the neighbouring states of Lara, Portuguesa, Cojedes and Barinas, where sugar, tobacco and cotton predominate. It is a hot capital with no great interest, which is likely, at most, to create a stop between the Andes and the coast. And again. You can see the enormous and kinetic monumento al Sol Naciente of Carlos Cruz Diez, opposite the Las Trinatarias shopping mall, and Terepaima National Park. And above all, walks leave for the Indiens colonial and Colonial Indian villages of Carora. Finally, some French come to this city to study at university (UCLA)… civil engineering, for example.