Pregonero is a town in

Táchira State Táchira State ( es, Estado Táchira, ) is one of the 24 states of Venezuela. The state capital is San Cristóbal. Táchira State covers a total surface area of and as of the 2011 census, had a population of 1,168,908. At the end of the 19t ...

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

. It is the administrative centre for Uribante Municipality. Pregonero is located high in the

Andes Mountains The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the List of mountain ranges#Mountain ranges by length, longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range i ...

at an elevation of 1,327 m. on the banks of the

Uribante River The Uribante River is a river of Venezuela, a tributary of the Apure River. The river is in the Orinoco basin. It drains part of the southern slope of the Táchira depression. See also *List of rivers of Venezuela This is a list of rivers in V ...

. Traditionally, Pregonero was founded by Francisco de Borja y Mora in 1727 with settlers from

La Grita La Grita is a town in the north west of Táchira state, Venezuela. It has a population of 80.000. Located in an Andean valley, La Grita has a beautiful natural setting and fertile land. The town includes colonial style houses and open plazas. The ...

, although there was already an indigenous village there.

Geography

The town is located above the Uribante River on a river terrace which was formed in

Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fina ...

times. The climate is classified as

tropical savanna Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a terrestrial biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The biome is dominated by grass and/or shrubs located in semi-arid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and t ...

with wet summers and dry winters. Annual rainfall is around 1,400 mm. Located nearby is the Uribante Caparo dam. There are two large plazas, Bolivar Plaza located in front of the church of San Antonio de Padua and the Plaza Miranda in front of the church of Nuestra Señora del Carmen.

Notable people

Bartus Bartolomes Bartolomé Sanchez, better known as Bartus Bartolomes, is an artist born in 1950 in the town of Pregonero, in the state of Táchira, Venezuela. He is currently based in Italy and France. Bartus creates using a wide range of mediums, including pa ...

Notes

External links

"Pregonero, Venezuela"
Falling Rain Genomics, Inc.

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