Coquivacoa
Coquivacoa or Coquibacoa is an indigenous name for an area in north-west
Caquetio people
.
The Spanish conquistador Alonso de Ojeda had been appointed Governor of Coquibacoa in 1501 (june, 10th), a position that only lasted a few months. He had applied the term Coquibacoa to the Guajira Peninsula, which Ojeda erroneously thought was an island.
Legacy
A parish in Maracaibo is named Coquivacoa.
Gaita Zuliana group founded in 1968. There is a regional television station named Coquivacoa Televisión. Singer Alí Primera
wrote a song called Coquivacoa.
There is a city named
Caquetio people
.
References
- ^ (in Spanish) Graziano Gasparini (1976), Templos coloniales de Venezuela, E. Armitano
- Miguel Angel Burelli Rivassaid that the term had never been applied to the Gulf of Venezuela and actually referred to Lake Maracaibo - (in Spanish) Leandro Area, Elke de Stockhausen (2001), El Golfo de Venezuela, Instituto de Estudios Políticos, Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Políticas, Universidad Central de Venezuela, p128
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