Tumeremo

Tumeremo lies in the Guiana interior, south of the Orinoco and east of the Caroní basin. Catalan Capuchin missionaries established Nuestra Señora de Belén de Tumeremo in 1788, the last of their mission towns in Guiana. A settlement already existed there by 1786. The mission formed part of a network through which the friars sought to gather and evangelise Indigenous inhabitants of the region.