Guanare is Venezuela’s spiritual capital…

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Guanare- Venezuela’s spiritual capital

1951, November 3rd, Portuguese Captain Juan Fernandez de Leon founded this city called by first time as espíritu santo Del valle de guanaguanare, and nowadays its name is guanare, the capital of portuguesa state.

Museums, nature beauty, regional events like carnivals and bull’s games, and the wonderful and majestic Coromoto´s virgin temple are some of the most important attractive places in this town and this is why many people visit it because tourists want to be in a land full of peace, happiness and religious faith.

Main information

City: guanare

State or province: portuguesa

Climate temperatures: between 22ºc and 26ºc

Geographical location: this is located in the center of the west part of Venezuela

Surface: 15.200 kms

Population: actually portuguesa state has 830.441 inhabitants.

Description: Venezuela’s spiritual capital has mixture of history, religious feeling and a strong nature of “llaneros”. Museums, nature beauty, and a big and beautiful temple built for people who believe in Coromoto´s Virgin. All these attractions make people traveling to this magic place where agriculture is good and cattle lives well.

Lodging:

Lodging - Guanare - Estado Portuguesa

Hotels	Telephone numbers / Fax
Hotel Italia Carrera 5ª con calle 20	Tel: (0257) 2531213 Fax:
Hotel La Sultana Av. Simón Bolívar, a 500 mts del aeropuerto	Tel: (0257) 2531723 Fax:
Hotel Mirador Av. Simón Bolívar, vía Barinas	Tel: (0257) 2535320 Fax:
Hotel Portuguesa Av. 23 de Enero cruce con Av. Simón Bolívar	Tel: (0257) 2531443 - (0257) 2511102 Fax:
Motel Los Cospes Av. Simón Bolívar C.C. Los Cospes	Tel: (0257) 2513304 Fax:
Hostería Villa Fariones Av. Simón Bolívar con calle 18,	Tel: (0257) 2515831 - (0257) 2515324 Fax:

hostels	telephones / Fax
Posada del Cabrestero Pueblo llanero	Tel: (0257) 2530102 - (0257) 2510324 Fax:

Camps	telephones / Fax
Hacienda Fundo Pedernales next to caserío Las Matas	Tel: (0256) 5145070 - (0414) 5750239 Fax:

Restaurants:

• Doña Parrilla Guanare
• Siempre Bodegón
• Pedro Miguel
• El Andinito
• Pastísima

Tourism

What can you know?

In portuguesa state Guanare and Acarigua are the most visited cities, in the valleys and sheets there are a lot of potential tourist places like:

Nature tourism

• Rivers

• Parks los samanes

• COMPLEJO FERIAL JOSÉ ANTONIO PAEZ

• REPRESA TUCUPIDO