This Square is dedicated  to the "Cacique Manaure". Manaure was "the Cacique of the Caquetios" one of the indigenous groups that lived in Falcon and Coro at the time of the Conquest.  Manaure is represented with his hand open in a symbolic expression of hospitality.

"Cacique" was the term used by the tribes in order to denominate their maximum lider, who was chosen for his courage and for his acts of sacrifice for the tribe.

"Caquetíos" and "Jirarajaras" were the indigenous groups or tribes that  occupied the zone of Falcon before the Times of the Conquest. According to the Ballesteros Bishop, the district of the City of Coro was inhabited for fourteen or fifteen thousand Indians. Los "Jirajaras"  occupied the mountains to the South of Coro.

The term "Tribe" is used in order to point out the groups that lived in the same geographical area, that  spoke  the same language and and also had common practices of agriculture, hunt, fishing and economy.

Another Caquetío Cacique that was distinguished for his heroics acts was the Catimayacuna Cacique
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According to Federmann (Archaeology of Northwestern Venezuela, p. 14), the Caquetíos were tall and pleasant people, living in large villages, trading with each other and with other tribes, especially for salt. One of the most valuable characteristics of these tribes was the presence of the salt in the culture. Not only because they used in their foods, and in order to preserve the pieces of hunt and the products of fishing, but rather, also, because  they used it as a object of exchange for products with other tribes.


On the other hand, they are abundant testimonies that highlight the fact that the aboriginal worked the land, obtaining tobacco and cotton, corn, yuca and vegetables. They used tobacco for smoking in form of cigarettes and also were used  as a form of predicting the future.  For their defense the Caquetíos used arches and arrows not poisoned and "macanas."

The burial practices of the Caquetíos included Endocanabilismo and Mummification which were used only for the important men inside the tribe like the Caciques or "DIAOS."

Attributes of Manaure and the Caquetios

One of the most important attributes of the Caquetíos was their character, all referred to them like "people of more reason than of other parts." The caquetío was characterized for being peaceful, worker and laborious, and it in the agricultural tasks was the best. 
Manaure had a daughter JUDIBANA , that married the cacique of Paraguaná HUREHUREBO , that also as the Manaure Cacique was baptized Jon uly 26 of 1527, Day of Santa Ana de Coro. " It is sure that the Hurehurebo-Judibana marriage," was constituted by two heroes,  noblemen, workers, and modest people." (Anibal Hill Peña. De Coro y De Corianos . P. 105).