Sucre Municipality is one of the 18
municipalities
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(
municipios) that makes up the
Venezuela
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n state of
Aragua and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 114,509. The town of
Cagua
Cagua () is a city of Venezuela, capital of the Sucre Municipality of Aragua State. Cagua is part of the metropolitan area of Maracay.
History
Cagua was established in 1620 as "Cagua La Vieja", a town of original Spaniards. Cagua was rebuilt ...
is the
shire town
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of the Sucre Municipality.
[http://www.ine.gob.ve/secciones/division/Aragua.zip ]
Name
The municipality is one of several in Venezuela named "
Sucre Municipality" in honour of Venezuelan independence hero
Antonio José de Sucre.
History
The town of Cagua was first established as ''Cagua la Vieja'' in 1620 and was originally made up of Spaniards. The origin of the name ''Cagua'', comes from the native word ''Cahiua'', which means ''snail''. Cagua was rebuilt in its current location in 1622 under the new name of ''Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Cagua'', which was later changed to ''San Jose de Cagua'' during the 18th century. The city is now known as just ''Cagua''.
Cagua is a small city with several squares and has a tropical climate. It's ones of the most important cities of
Aragua because of its proximity to
Maracay, the state capital and
Caracas
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...
. Cagua has been, for a long time, an important industrial zone.
One of its most important places are Casa Guipuzcoana and the Mountain "El Empalado", where original natives were burned alive by Spanish colonizers; this mountain is rich in marble and typical plants such as Araguaney, Samán, Bucare, and Apamate.
Sites of interest
*Sucre square
*Casa Guipuzcoana
*Marble Mines
*Empalado Mountain
*Old Mill
*Saint Joseph Church
*Taiguaiguay Lake
Demographics
The Sucre Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 120,302 (up from 109,723 in 2000). This amounts to 7.2% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is .
Government
The mayor of the Sucre Municipality is Eusebio de la Cruz Agüero, elected on December 8, 2013, with 51,66% of the vote.
He replaced Luis Zambrano shortly after the elections. The municipality is divided into two
parish
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es; Capital Sucre and Bella Vista.
References
External links
sucre-aragua.gob.ve
Municipalities of Aragua
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