Guanare is the capital and most populated city of Portuguesa State, Venezuela. It is where la Virgen de Coromoto is said to have appeared to a Coromoto Indian. Guanare was founded November 3, 1591 by João Fernandes de Leão Pacheco , a Portuguese captain from Portimão. Located at the edge of the Southwestern floodplains, near the Andes foothills, Guanare is in a region known for livestock and agricultural production. Guanare is also the location of one of the campuses of UNELLEZ [1], one of the nation's main agricultural universities. It is also said that is the spiritual capital of Venezuela, and it is recognizable for its tourism, and where many ev...
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