Juan de Carvajal

Juan de Carvajal was a Spanish conquistador and one of the first Governors of the Venezuela Province.[1]

For the Spanish cardinal, see Juan Carvajal (cardinal).
Bust of Carvajal in El Tocuyo.

He founded El Tocuyo in 1545. When Philipp von Hutten and Bartholomeus VI. Welser returned from a failed expedition to find El Dorado, Carvajal had them killed. The Welser family's colonial rights were withdrawn soon afterward, which ended Klein-Venedig.[2]

References
  1. worldstatesmen.org, Venezuela
  2. coroweb.com, Santa Ana de Coro Archived 2011-01-02 at the Wayback Machine


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