La propiedad territorial de las sabanas de Taratara en la conformación de los poblados indígenas de el Carrizal y Guaibacoa. La Colonia

Abstract

The annals of the European colonization process in Venezuelan lands is marked significantly from the granting and ownership of land to individuals. The extensive common lands of the city of Coro were composed by the economic elite that, in turn, was benefitted by influential political figures. One of the first negotiations, at the end of the 16th century, quotes the Taratara savannas, whose strategic location manages to consolidate the project of military defense of the coasts after the foundation of the doctrine villages of El Carrizal and Guaibacoa, promoted in 1723 by the priest don Pedro Sangronis, and the brothers of Colina and Peredo. The information compiled about the territorial tradition of these savannas offers data on the evolution of the newly created towns and the separatist process that closes the Colonial period (1812) with the partition of the territorial unit of the Carrizal-Guaibacoa indigenous community.