El Hatillo Municipality
El Hatillo is one of the five municipalities of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. It is located in the southeastern area of the city, and in the northwestern part of the State of Miranda. The seat of the municipal government is El Hatillo Town, founded in 1784 by Don Baltasar de León.
About El Hatillo Municipality in brief
El Hatillo Municipality is one of the five municipalities of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. It is located in the southeastern area of the city, and in the northwestern part of the State of Miranda. The seat of the municipal government is El Hatillo Town, founded in 1784 by Don Baltasar de León. The municipality receives a part of its income from tourism, an activity that is promoted by the government. Although commercial areas are growing rapidly, agriculture remains a foundation of the economy in the rural areas of the southern part of El Hatillos. The business sector remains mostly underdeveloped, causing heavy employee movement in and out of the municipality – a problem that has made the transportation infrastructure of ElHatillo very congested. In the 1950s and 1960s, La Lagunita S.A. was constructed on 4 million m² of land that once belonged to former Venezuelan president Eleazar López Contras. The neighborhood has a rich artistic culture, with at least two important musical festivals celebrated yearly, and numerous holiday celebrations reflecting the heritage of Elhatillo. The town has some of its colonial architecture, including an 18th-century parish church and a unique Romanian Orthodox Church. It was once inhabited by the Mariches, an indigenous people possibly related to the Kalina. Cacique Tamanaco was the leader of these tribes, known for resisting the Spanish colonisation. As the colonisation developed, the indigenous inhabitants were killed; by order of the Caracas’s founder Diego de Losada, Tamanco was also murdered.
In 1809, landlord and Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Escalona achieved the separation of El hatillo from Petare, making it a different Tenientazgo de Justicia – a type of administrative division at the time. On April 19, 1810,Escalona enjoined the town to the movement of independence under Simón Bolívar, becoming another important person in the history of the Municipality. In 2000, some of the. municipality functions were delegated to a consolidated mayor’s office called Alcaldía Mayor, which also has some authority over the other four municipalities of. Caracas. She donated a considerable amount of money for the construction of a hospital in Petare after the 1812 earthquake. She is currently known as the Pérez de Leérez Hospital; she also donated money for this hospital as well as for the Pón de Petare hospital in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1964, the La LagUnita Country Club was officially opened, which is currently called La Lag unita. It has been officially opened in 1964, and has a membership to Lagunitas Country Club, which was officiallyopened in 1964. It also has a 4.5-million-sq-m² residential area called La Contras, which has been constructed on 3 million hacienda haciendas that belonged to a former Venezuelan former president, Eleazar Contras Lóras.
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