Pedro María Ureña, Táchira, Venezuela Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of Pedro María Ureña ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History

 * By 1530 a small part of the valley of the current city of Ureña was inhabited by the La Murchibila indigenous people, integrated, among others, by the Los Cucoraques settlement, located in the surroundings of what is now Aguas Calientes.
 * On December 5, 1851, the Civil Parish of Ureña was erected on land donated by Don Pedro Maria Ureña.
 * This first town was completely destroyed by the Cúcuta Earthquake on May 18, 1875 and later rebuilt under the name of Ureña in a place called Plaza de Los Quemados.
 * Pedro María Ureña has been a Municipality since December 5, 1972.
 * On August 21, 2015, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, partially declared a state of exception in the border state of Táchira, ordering a total border closure due to the diplomatic crisis with Colombia, and almost a year later allowing only pedestrian passage due to to the pressure and social crisis generated by the measure, this municipal entity being one of the five municipalities affected by the presidential measure.
 * The municipality of Pedro María Ureña has a population of approximately 52,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1874-1999 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1974-1999 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Church Records

 * 1577-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1852-1946 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the Pedro María Ureña municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * El Cementerio de Ureña
 * Direction: WHC4+MH3, Ureña, Pedro María Ureña