Guanta is the capital and largest city of

Guanta Municipality The Guanta Municipality is one of the 21 Municipalities of Venezuela, municipalities (municipios) that makes up the eastern Venezuelan state of Anzoátegui and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the ...

. Together with

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, Puerto La Cruz and Lechería it forms a

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of around 1.2m inhabitants. The town is named for the

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Guantar of the

Cumanagoto people The Cumanagoto people are a group of Native Americans in South America. Their language belongs to the Carib language family. Their territory extended originally over the ancient province of Nueva Andalucía (Cumaná and Barcelona) in eastern Ven ...

, the indigenous inhabitants of the area at the time of the Spanish conquest. Formally founded in 1594, it was already an indigenous settlement before this time.

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* Populated places in Anzoátegui Ports and harbours of Venezuela Populated places established in 1594 {{venezuela-geo-stub