History of Maracaibo and Zulia that few know

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@rorocando22 · 26 May 2021

History of Maracaibo and Zulia that few know

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Prior to the construction of the bridge over Lake Maracaibo, it was very difficult to get to or leave Maracaibo, who traveled by boat from Caracas or another city, had to have a passport as the boats went first to Aruba and Curaçao and then to Maracaibo in Zulia state.

It was difficult and very rare to see Passion Fruit by cities in the interior of Venezuela due to the isolation of the lake and the lack of landways.

Going to the Andean states was a daring, almost all trade was mobilized river in canoes, canoes and ferries.

Maracaibo was the last province to separate from Spain

Maracaibo was the last province to separate from Spain, 10 years after Venezuela's declaration of independence, thanks to the victory of the naval battle of the lake (1823).

Being separated from the rest of Venezuela led them to maintain their customs, idiosyncrasy, characteristic speech (voseo), regionalism, jocusity and many other characteristics that make them particular and at the same time create a kind of suspicion or healthy rivalry among the rest of Venezuelans.

Archaeological research confirms aboriginal presence in maracaiberian soils, 15,000 years BC.

Archaeological revelations of Cruxent and Rouse show fossils of ceramic objects, stone artifacts, shell manufactures, funeral urns and metal ornamentations demonstrating the millennial presence of the maracaiberian aboriginal ancestors.

The history of the founding of Maracaibo has been subject to historical divergences arising from the fact that there were several characters and moments in which an attempt was made to build a real settlement.

Américo Vespucio and Little Venice

The first European approach to this area was made by Alonso de Ojeda on August 24, 1499, who discovered Lake Maracaibo together with Juan de la Cosa and Américo Vespucio.

They are given the name of Venezuela when they evoked Venice when they saw that the inhabitants lived in palafitos on the lake and that people moved from one place to another by means of small wooden bridges and canoes.

The city of Maracaibo was founded three times. The first, on September 8, 1529 by German Ambrosio Ehinger (spanish as Alfinger), conqueror of the Welser family of Augsburg and first governor of the Province of Venezuela under the name of Neu Nürenberg (New Nuremberg in German).

Between 1614 and 1678 there were several pirate attacks on Maracaibo and other Spanish settlements on the Lake.

Dutch privateer Henry de Gerard would arrive in 1614, then in 1642 the English pirate William Jackson.

The period between 1665 and 1669 is known as the five-year period of pirates. In 1665 the Frenchman Jean David Nau, alias Olonese, attacked Maracaibo and between 1666 and 1669 were Miguel El Vascongado, Dutch Albert van Eyck and Welsh Henry Morgan.

Finally, in 1678, Frenchman Michel de Grandmont assaults the city and towns of the south of the Lake, going into the mainland to Trujillo.

Palafitos are a special form of housing built on lakes and swamps. In some cases they can be seen on the seashore and on a smaller scale there are settled on canals, called eco-houses.
I leave you a few photos of my visit to stone dot where there are still some Palafitos.
You have to pass bridges made of pieces of wooden boards.

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