History
The majestic national park "Henry Pittier offers across the road in the middle of dense forests, as an alternative dream is to reach" paradise tourist Aragua "Choroni. Traveling to this picturesque regional population without knowing its history is not being filled to the bottom of my heart for his people, the old legend that "the quiet life in the village of Los Choroni is violently interrupted by a strange bearded men who come the sea. The presence of these men dressed in an unusual manner, leaving everyone stunned members of the tribe. From that moment his life is transformed, are persecuted, harassed, enslaved, without understanding what is happening. The Churuní start war against the Spanish invaders. They are crushed, the conqueror is stronger. The sadness seizes the Indus has lost everything: his home, woman, freedom and even his name. Choroni call now. It is distributed as object, on the site that was before him. It is a slave, which was previously free. The beloved chieftain is replaced by the despot and hated comendero. At the missionaries of Indian life is more bearable, you should change your beliefs and accept the white man's . The arrival of African slaves, softens his farm.
For 1616 were already Choroni Indians with a doctrine of his church from the Fray Pedro Buitriago and much of the Indians entrusted to the captain Diego de Ovalle, had established their homes around the temple, in 1622 the village is formalized as a people, under dedicated and named "San Francisco de Paula" by the resident judge, Lieutenant Don Pedro Gutierrez and the vicar Fr. Gabriel Mendoza. Over time the people into "Santa Clara Assisi in 1964 and bears the name" Santa Clara Valley Choroni ", being known as Choroni. Before the first inhabitants of what later was called the Valley of Costa Choroni or below, were the natural and later called "Indians" of Caribbean origin, who were along the coastal region of Venezuela. Most of the Caribs and little nomadic semi-sedentary, it is assumed that those who settled in the Valley of Choroni, the latter being a "sedentary." These were organized into groups of consanguineous families engaged in fishing, hunting and gathering, having a perfect mastery of the craft as well (canoes and kayaks), and bow and flecha.Los who came to settle permanently in that Instead, once made this site, developed shifting cultivation of fruits and roots, such as banana, cassava and maize, and so on. Were also barter trade with other tribes interioranas by changing salt or other product, some of the lines of those which occurred.
In this vein, one of the first Spaniards to hold an encomienda in the Valley of Choroni was Captain Lazaro Vasquez, which possibly gave the conquistador Don Diego de Lozada, since there is no date on it, only known that this task, it gave his daughter María de Rojas Vasquez, wife of Captain Don Diego de Ovalles of Portuguese origin. This encomienda Indians and 40 had produced 2,000 pesos a year.
A noteworthy fact is the existence of a Choroni back in cocoa cultivation and organized in 1616. In the valleys of the sea coast there has always been the wild cacao, which the Indians took advantage of as primitive. We collected the scattered cacahuales in the thick foliage of the jungle, and profitability, using it as currency exchange and especially in the beverage known as "Chorote. Surely this should be the cacao lineage after the famous cocoa Chuao "variety that was in that area aragüeña, distinct from other regions called cundeamor, zambito, angoleta, balls, etc.. When the product begins to become popular in Europe and acquires commercial value, the encomenderos leave aside the wild collection and manage the crop in a rational way. So does the Captain Diego de Ovalle in Choroni, and other encomenderos in their respective valleys. It is clear that such a grove of cocoa-Ovalle, by the slowness of its growth, is not raised in that very year of 1616, but efforts should have begun a few years ago.
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