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

DAM TUCUPIDO

It has a beautiful lake of 13000 blocks; it’s located in the north of Orinoco River. This is an excellent place to practice water sports, fishing or having a good time enjoying the nature beauties.

COMPLEJO FERIAL JOSÉ ANTONIO PAEZ

Parks

PARQUE LOS SAMANES

It was built in 1983. The tradition says that members of venezuelan army rest under the big trees of this park during “campaña admirable”.

Rive

The main water course is the river Guanare, which crosses from west to east and this empties in portuguesa river in la union, arismendi municipality in barinas state.

Cultural tourism

MUSEUM DEL LLANO (Pueblo Llanero)

Llanos museum

MUSEO INÉS MERCEDES GÓMEZ ÁLVAREZ

It’s located in downtown, inside a gorgeous old house of XVIII century; Monseñor Jose Vicente de Unda owned it. This place has guanare´s history saved.

Religious Tourism

• CONVENTO DE SAN FRANCISCO

• CASACOIMA

• BASÍLICA CATEDRAL NUESTRA SEÑORA DE COROMOTO

• SANTUARIO NACIONAL NUESTRA SEÑORA DE COROMOTO

CONVENTO DE SAN FRANCISCO

It was built by Fernando xviii employers in 1975. After Venezuela was an independent country in 1825.

CASACOIMA

It was built in XVIII century; Inside of this place there was the “compañia guipuzcoana” and later it was used for cigarettes factory.

BASÍLICA CATEDRAL NUESTRA SEÑORA DE COROMOTO

In 1807 November 3rd was founded, but in 1949 this church became famous because of papa’s visit

ANTIGUA CÁRCEL DE GUANARE

It’s located in front of Bolivar square of Guanare, Behind these jail bars was “El Marques de las riberas de bocono”

SANTUARIO NACIONAL NUESTRA SEÑORA DE COROMOTO

25 kilometers far from Guanare in the road that goes to barinas, there is an awesome sanctuary. It’s the real place where virgin appeared to an Indian called as Coromoto by second time.

MITOS Y LEYENDAS

Active imagination that characterizes the plains has created many legends and myths that were told in the meetings of the workers at the end of the working day and at bedtime or songs or passages used as the point of a horror story or appeared.

Among the most legends are recounted, La Llorona, La Sayona, El Hachador of Ospino, but undoubtedly the best known is "The Silbón," a tall and thin espanto takes him a sack full of bones and that "the paths of Portuguese desanda During the month of May".