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    El Tocuyo is a fertile valley and city in west-central Venezuela at 622 m (2,041 ft) elevation. It is located in south-central Lara State about 60 km...
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    and a traveling companion, Bartholomeus VI. Welser, were executed in El Tocuyo by the Spanish authorities. In 1535, Sebastian de Benalcazar, a lieutenant...
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    in the Province of Barquisimeto, which included the cantons of Quíbor, El Tocuyo, Carora and Barquisimeto; besides others that conform today the state...
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  • post-mortem trial of residence held in El Tocuyo, Aguirre was found guilty of the crime of Lèse-majesté. In Mérida and El Tocuyo several of his soldiers were brought...
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    gone by with no news of Hutten and his followers, Carvajal had founded El Tocuyo with settlers of Coro and begun to feel secure in his position, and the...
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    Charles V and tried to take control of the province. In 1545 he founded El Tocuyo with German colonists of Coro. On Hutten's return to the capital, Santa...
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    first governor. Coro was the province's capital until 1546, followed by El Tocuyo (1546-1577). The capital was moved to Caracas in 1577 by Juan de Pimentel...
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  • Indian territory in search of gold. When Juan de Carvajal was founding El Tocuyo in 1545, Spaniards and some German-speakers (German, Flemish and Swiss...
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  •   Mrs. Tan and Moi were the runners-up.   Russia Fox was voted Miss El Tocuyo (Miss ET).   WIN indicates that the contestant was the highest in the...
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    explored Venezuela along with Philipp von Hutten and both were executed at El Tocuyo by local Spanish Governor Juan de Carvajal in 1546. From 1528 to 1556...
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  • 130 years since the Great Andes Earthquake. May 11: 280 years since the El Tocuyo Rebellion. May 22: 260 years since the founding of Ciudad Bolívar. July...
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  • Spanish cardinal Juan de Carvajal, Spanish conquistador, founder of El Tocuyo in 1545 Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (1566–1614), Spanish religious poet and...
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    the municipalities of Libertador in Distrito Capital, and Baruta, Chacao, El Hatillo, and Sucre (Petare) in Miranda state. 2005 est 2010 estimate 2001...
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    expedition to find the mythical El Dorado, Carvajal tried to take control, and in 1545 he founded the settlement of El Tocuyo which became the colonists'...
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    route towards Colombia. In 1547, Alonso Pérez de Tolosa, who came from El Tocuyo, also crossed the territory. The pre-Columbian history of the Western...
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    Maria de la Paz in Santo Tomás, Nicaragua Monasterio N.S. de Coromoto in El Tocuyo, Venezuela North America Notre Dame du Calvaire Abbey in Nouvelle-Arcadie...
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  • County, United States Morelia, Mexico Ponta Grossa, Brazil Puebla, Mexico El Tocuyo, Venezuela Ate Tuluá, Colombia Valle de Trápaga-Trapagaran, Spain Villa...
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    1812, (which devastated the cities of Caracas, Barquisimeto, Mérida, El Tocuyo and San Felipe) destroyed the temple of the Divina Pastora, but the sculpture...
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  • José Giovanni Ramos (born April 12, 1983 in El Tocuyo) is a Venezuelan sprint canoer who competed in the late 2000s. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...
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    city of Calabozo by Cristóbal Rodríguez along with eleven families from El Tocuyo. He founded the town that he called San Luis de la Unión. From there the...
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    of El Tocuyo is the shire town of the Morán Municipality. The town of El Tocuyo was founded by Juan de Carvajal in 1545 on the banks of the Tocuyo River...
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    the indigenous people. Shortly thereafter, Alfonso Perez de Tolosa left El Tocuyo (Venezuela) and went to Salazar de Las Palmas, through Cúcuta, but also...
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    and Romania last competed in 2013, while the others last competed in 2014. El Salvador, Gabon, Ghana, Greece, Ireland, Lebanon, Montenegro, and Serbia withdrew...
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    of El Tocuyo, in Morán Municipality (Lara). His parents were Rafael Alvarado and Gracia Benigna Marchena. In the school La Concordia (of El Tocuyo), run...
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    Pascua, Maracay, Calabozo, San Fernando de Apure, Punto Fijo, Guacara, El Tocuyo, Chivacoa and Guanare. In 1958: Caracas and Acarigua, Villa de Cura, La...
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    Building, Barquisimeto, 1948 El Tocuyo Building, Barquisimeto, 1949 Public & Private Works Garaje Bolívar, Caracas, 1927? Almacenes El Pan Grande, Caracas, 1927-1940s...
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  • could in their own right join the kingdom. The Spanish settlement at El Tocuyo sent reinforcements to Nueva Segovia de Barquisimeto. Learning of this...
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  • better known as Niña Engracia, was a Venezuelan culinary artisan from El Tocuyo who made acemitas [es], emblematic of the city, as well as oven bread...
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    Guangzhou, China (2004) Ponta Grossa, Brazil (2005) Lins, Brazil (2007) El Tocuyo, Venezuela (2007) Biella, Italy (1985) Cochabamba, Bolivia (1990) Puebla...
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    To reach the Cascada del Vino from Barquisimeto take the road Quíbor–El Tocuyo, which divides: the road to the left is the Pan American route is taken...
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