Chacao Municipality, Miranda
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| Chacao Municipality, Miranda (Municipio Chacao, Miranda) |
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| Country | Venezuela | ||
| State | Miranda | ||
| Seat | N/A | ||
| Founded | September 27, 1769 | ||
| Incorporated | November 26, 1880 | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Leopoldo López | ||
| - Political party | Primero Justicia | ||
| Area | |||
| - City | 12 km² (4.6 sq mi) | ||
| - Land | 12 km² (4.6 sq mi) | ||
| Population (2001) | |||
| - City | 65,194 | ||
| Time zone | AST (UTC-4) | ||
| Website: http://www.chacao.gov.ve/ | |||
The Chacao Municipality is located in Miranda State, Venezuela, and is part of the Caracas Metropolitan District. It is situated on the northeast part of Caracas surrounded by the municipalities of Sucre (to the east), Baruta (to the south), Libertador (to the west), and the Vargas State (to the north). The Cerro El Ávila occupies the north part of the municipality. Chacao is small and prosperous. Except for the mountain of Avila, the north half is an exclusive residential district of the upper classes. Many office buildings and embassies are located in the south. The current mayor is Leopoldo López, who was re-elected for the period 2004-2008 and belongs to the political party "Primero Justicia". Chacao municipality (along with its southern neighbour municipalities; Baruta and El Hatillo) has become noted for having a higher level of service delivery (such as sanitation and health care) as well as a higher standard of law-enforcement. The stark contrast between Chacao and such muncipalities as Libertador and Sucre in areas such as security has brought its administration (and particularly Mayor López) into conflict with the National Government as well as the President Chavez aligned administration of Greater Caracas.
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[edit] History
The history of the municipality has like departure point, the death of the Cacique Chacao, who gave his life in defense of his town before the Spanish conquerors in 1567. In the Cumanagoto language Chakau (Chacao) means Sand. The foundation of the town begins with the immigration of the victims of the earthquake of San Bernabé, June 11, 1641, that left Caracas in ruins, destroying its churches.
The Conqueror Diego de Losada, founder of the city of Caracas, includes Chacao in his jurisdiction , fertile plain that many visitors, like the Baron Alexander von Humboldt, got to consider like ideal site for the conformation of the city. Even, the repeated epidemics and calamities that knocked down Caracas, the Town hall and the Governor and Commander in chief of the Province, Don Jose Solano y Bote, in 1764, thinks to transfer the city to this locality, idea that was rejected by the Bishop Mauro Tovar, however, many people, went to this town finding refuge in this calm territory to which they turned a productive coffee zone, of great importance in the colonial time.
[edit] From parish to municipality
On April 15 of 1769, again the neighbors of Chacao, raise their voice to ask for the creation of a new independent ecclesiastical parish of the Parish of the Candlemas. Don Francisco Palaces and Sojo, that now were Lieutenant of Greater Justice, makes the new request before the Bishopric. After evaluating the economic conditions to satisfy the exigencies with the Bar, in issued Decree the 27 of September of 1769, the separation of Chacao of the Parish of the Candlemas is granted.
With use from the 30 of September of that year, officially the new parish under the protection of San jOse was proclaimed and their territorial, same limits settled down to him that show until today. The 2 of October of 1769, the Presbítero Br. Juan Antonio Cróquer received as his Cures Temporary, the Parish of San jOse de Chacao of hands of the Bishopric. The 6 of November, the Parish is put under aid to choose its first priest being elect the Father Jose Antonio Garci'a Mohedano who assumes their position from the 18 of January of 1770. With the intention of surpassing the crisis that presents/displays the Parish, Mohedano Father tries to cultivate coffee seeds and presents/displays the project to Don Bartholomew Blandín, the Father Pedro Ramon Palaces and Gil de Arratia known like “Sojo Father”. The culture achieves a full success in 1786, happening to become Chacao one of the main coffee zones of Venezuela. They would spend 95 years, so that the 29 of February of 1864, another decision of great importance for Chacao was assumed. In this case Falcon corresponded to General Juan Crisóstomo, that after summoning a Constituent National Assembly, reorganized the Caracas state denominating it Federal District.
This district was constituted by 3 departments, between these; Liberator, within who Chacao appeared like Foreign Civil Parish. This situation lasted 16 years, until General Antonio White Guzmán, by Decree incorporated from the 26 of November of 1880, to Chacao like Foreign Municipality of the Urbaneja District of the state Bolivar, district that after the 22 of September of 1881, step to be called Sucre District of the state Miranda conformed by the foreign municipalities Baruta, the Hatillo and Chacao, having to Petare like Capital Municipality. With the entrance in use of the Reformation of the Statutory law of Municipal Regime in 1989, the figure of the Sucre District disappears, inasmuch as the foreign municipalities ask for their autonomy when legally fulfilling the necessary requirements demanded by the laws. They are satisfied thus Baruta, the Hatillo, Sucre and Chacao like Municipalities. The 13 of November of 1991, by request of a Promotional Meeting the autonomy was granted to him to the Chacao Municipality; and the Legislative Assembly of the State Miranda promulgated the Law of Creation of the Chacao Municipality, published in Official Newspaper of the State Miranda, the 17 of January of 1992.
The 22 of January of 1992, the Legislative Assembly administered an oath in the Seat Bolivar de Chacao to the members of the Organizing Meeting, that were in charge to create the conditions so that the community could choose, the 6 of December of 1992, to the members of the first municipal government of Chacao. The 4 of January of 1993, Irene Sa'ez Conde, are administered an oath like the first mayoress of the Chacao Municipality, whereas the first Municipal Council was integrated by Ivonne Attas, Alberto Palazzi, Cecilia Pocaterra, Cornelio Popesco, Maria Quintana, Francisco González, America Rivera, Ingrid Diaz and Alí Morales. Also they were administered an oath Jose Aveledo like Contralor Municipal and Rafael Contreras like Receiver Municipal Solicitor. Of equal way, the 6 of January it was installed the first Parochial Meeting, presided over by Adrián Diaz and conformed in addition by Caesar Febres Lamb, Either Dib, Jose Luis Prieto and Eleazar Lozada.
[edit] Sites of interest
- San Ignacio Mall
- Sambil Mall
- Plaza Francia
- Centro Cultural Chacao
- Centro Lido
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| City-wide authority: | Alcaldía Mayor (Mayor: Juan Barreto) |
| Municipalities: | Baruta (Mayor: Henrique Capriles Radonski) | Chacao (Mayor: Leopoldo López) | El Hatillo (Mayor: Alfredo Catalán) | Libertador (Mayor: Freddy Bernal) | Sucre (Mayor: José Vicente Rangel Ávalos) |
