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==History== | ==History== | ||
< | *When the Europeans arrived in Venezuela, the region that is now Lara was inhabited by various ethnic groups such as the gayones, the ayomanes and the coyones. | ||
*From 1529 until the 1950s, the German conquerors carried out massacres of entire peoples and tried to enslave the remaining indigenous people. | |||
*The current Lara territory belonged to the province of Caracas. | |||
*In 1824 it was absorbed by the Province of Carabobo, created that year. | |||
*1832 after the disintegration of Gran Colombia, the region was broken up; it was then constituted in the Province of Barquisimeto. | |||
*In 1856, through the new territorial division law, San Felipe and Yaritagua joined Nirgua to form the Province of Yaracuy. | |||
*In 1881, the creation of the Great State of the North of the West was agreed upon, to which the areas of Lara and Yaracuy were added. | |||
*In August of that same year the state name Lara is assigned. | |||
*In 1899, the territory corresponding to the current Silva and Monseñor Iturriza municipalities of Falcón state were integrated into that last state in exchange for what is now the Urdaneta municipality. | |||
*Lara State has a population of approximately 2,204,000 people.<ref>Wikipedia Contributors, "Estado de Lara," in ''Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia'', https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estado_Lara. Visited on November 22, 2021.</ref> | |||
==Municipalities== | ==Municipalities== | ||
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