Guaraque, Mérida, Venezuela Genealogy

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

History

 * On April 23, 1653, Don Salvador Fernández de Rojas founded Guaraque as an encomienda town.
 * On June 25, 1824, it was elevated to a civil parish.
 * In June 1884 it was erected as an Ecclesiastical parish under the patronage of Santa Bárbara.
 * The Guaraque Municipality was linked to the old Rivas Dávila District (today Rivas Dávila Municipality) since 1904 when it was one of the foreign parishes of that district.
 * In 1984 it became the Autonomous Municipality of Guaraque, made up of the Foreign Municipalities of Mesa de Quintero and Río Negro.
 * In 1992 it was modified by territorial political law, remaining as Guaraque Municipality integrated by the parishes of Mesa de Quintero, Quebrada Seca Río Negro and Guaraque.
 * The Municipality of Guaraque has a population of approximately 11,100 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no records online for Guaraque municipality.

Church Records

 * 1577-1995 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1826-1947 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1884-2010 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
 * 1965-2011 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the Guaraque municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * Cementerio de Guaraque
 * Cementerio de Rio Negro