Onoto

Onoto lies in the highlands west of Valencia in north-central Venezuela, along routes toward Nirgua. The Onoto valley and river in the Carabobo country carry the same name, and a settlement had developed along the river by the middle of the eighteenth century.

A local record shows inhabitants of Onoto among those petitioning for a church in 1732. When Bishop Martí visited in 1781, he described crops including maize, indigo, tobacco and beans.