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One of Venezuela's more advanced tribes, the Timoto-Cuica, is from the Andean region.
The Timoto-Cuica (who apparently are not united, but rather comprise a series of "chiefdoms") build roads and trade with the populations of the llanos, or plains, to the southeast, and the Maracaibo Basin, to the northwest.
Spanish slavers establish bases at Coro and El Tocuyo, south of Barquisimeto, in the western part of present-day Venezuela.
In 1528, however, they are dislodged by a most unlikely competitor; a consortium of German bankers led by the House of Welser, a German banking firm, had been granted a concession by the deeply indebted Spanish crown to exploit the area's resources.
For the next twenty-eight years, a series of German governors will administer western Venezuela and engage in a futile search for the fabled riches of El Dorado.
The Germans show no interest in settling the territory.
Rather, they try to extract from it the maximum amount of human and material wealth as rapidly as possible.
The Timoto-Cuica (who apparently are not united, but rather comprise a series of "chiefdoms") build roads and trade with the populations of the llanos, or plains, to the southeast, and the Maracaibo Basin, to the northwest.
Spanish slavers establish bases at Coro and El Tocuyo, south of Barquisimeto, in the western part of present-day Venezuela.
In 1528, however, they are dislodged by a most unlikely competitor; a consortium of German bankers led by the House of Welser, a German banking firm, had been granted a concession by the deeply indebted Spanish crown to exploit the area's resources.
For the next twenty-eight years, a series of German governors will administer western Venezuela and engage in a futile search for the fabled riches of El Dorado.
The Germans show no interest in settling the territory.
Rather, they try to extract from it the maximum amount of human and material wealth as rapidly as possible.
Aguirre’s open rebellion against the Spanish crown ends when he crosses to the mainland in an attempt to take Panama.
Surrounded at Barquisimeto, Venezuela, he murders his own daughter Elvira "because someone that I loved so much should not come to be bedded of ruin people".
He also kills several followers who had intended to capture him.
Eventually captured and shot at El Tocuyo on October 27, 1561, his body is cut into quarters and sent to various cities across Venezuela.