El Callao, Bolívar, Venezuela Genealogy

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

History

 * The town of El Callao, between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, before the arrival of the Spanish and the colony, was inhabited by the indigenous Maquiritare.
 * Then some explorers settled in this territory looking for escaped slaves.
 * These African slaves were in the vicinity of the Yuruari River and used this hiding place, if they were found, they were returned to their work.
 * But many of them stayed there because it was a perfect place to build a town, they killed and enslaved indigenous people from the area, and founded the town of El Callao.
 * In 1854, the first miners settled in the area of El Callao, dedicated to the exploitation of gold-bearing quartz in the area of Ejidos de la Nueva Providencia de Caratal, on the banks of the Yuruari River.
 * These miners were mostly immigrants from the Caribbean Antilles: San Marteen, Santa Lucía, San Cristóbal, Trinidad among others, generating a varied cultural conglomerate.
 * It was founded as a municipality on December 7, 1991.
 * The Municipality of El Callao has a population of approximately 29,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no records online for El Callao municipality.

Church Records

 * 1577-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1866-1910 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1871-1938 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1877-1938 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1969-1986 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the El Callao municipality may be found at findagrave.com