Jauregui

Jauregui lies in the mountains of western Venezuela, at the site of La Grita. Valleys and steep slopes connect this Andean country with routes toward Mérida and the lands farther south. In 1576 the Spanish captain Francisco de Cáceres founded the city of Espíritu Santo de La Grita. It became a centre for a colonial jurisdiction in a region where Indigenous communities had already established their own settlements and routes through the mountains.