San Carlos, Cojedes State, Llanos Region, Venezuela

🇻🇪 San Carlos is the capital of the Venezuelan state of Cojedes. This city is also the municipal seat of the Ezequiel Zamora Municipality.

History Father Capuchino Fray Pedro de Berja founded the city of San Carlos de Austria on April 27, 1678.

Demographics The San Carlos Municipality, according to the 2001 Venezuelan census, has a population of 83,957 (up from 62,140 in 1990). This amounts to 33.2% of Cojedes's population.

Government San Carlos is the shire town of the San Carlos Municipality in Cojedes. The mayor of the San Carlos Municipality is Pablo Rodríguez. The last municipal election was held in April 2013.

Historical sites • La Blanquera, a historical colonial-baroque style house founded by a wealthy family of Conquistadores in the 18th-century • Catedral de San Carlos • Iglesia Santo Domingo • Iglesia San Juan Bautista

Squares and parks • Plaza Bolívar.

Economy The economic base of the entity is oriented to extensive cattle raising. The livestock sector is dominated by cattle and pig farming. One fifth of the territory of Lugo is grazed by herds of different types. For centuries, livestock was the only alternative for occupying the space. The economy is completed by the production of milk, cheese, rice, tobacco, sesame, cotton, corn, yucca and forestry.

Its wood production is based on the irrational extraction of fine species, ultimately oriented to hard and soft woods. The industry, in constant expansion, produces spare parts for motors, electrical material, textile yarns and furniture among other products.

According to the MAC 89/91 Agricultural Statistical Yearbook, the main products grown in the state are: corn, yam, sorghum, quinchoncho, cassava, mango and other fruits. In the livestock sector, cattle and pig farming dominate with 502,690 and 166,242 units respectively, and 1,358,811 poultry.

Lumber production, initially based on the irrational extraction of fine species, has lately been oriented towards the so-called hard and soft woods, diminishing the productive capacity of the forests.

Main products • Agricultural: Cattle, milk, rice, tobacco, sesame, cotton, corn, yucca, wood, Rice, sugar cane, coffee, yam, sorghum and cassava. • Industrial: Automotive parts, yarn, furniture, electrical materials. • Breeding: Poultry, cattle, goats and pigs. • Fishing: Poor white, striped catfish, cajaro, coporo, palometa, sierra, tongo, among others.