Cojedes

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It is based on the preparation of meats, together with the following plates:

Cake of morrocoy.
Boiled of fish of river.
Creole gridiron.
Guarapita: unmatured brandy with juice of fruits and sugar. Stuffed Chigüire: with tapiramo (red french beans) and rice.
Tostón: green cooked banana.

Majarete: base of maize(corn) and coconut.
Bun: dessert of yucca accompanied on honey.
Bread of tunja: cake of flour of wheat.
Biscochuelo: bread of flour and wrapped(involved) eggs in sugar.

Cultural patrimonies

Temples and Churches:
Colonial: In San Carlos Immaculate Concepcion (Cathedral), San Juan Baptizer and Santo Domingo. In Tinaco: Church Our Lady of the Rosario; In the Pao: Church San Juan Baptizer.
Republican: In Tinaquillo: Church Our Lady of the Help.
Contemporary: In The Trunk: Church San Miguel Archangel.

Other Monuments: In the Pao: Ruins of the Institution for pious old women (1847), Town hall or Mayoralty (1820). In San Carlos: He(She) marries " The Blanquera ", natal House of the Colonel Fernando Figueredo, There sedates of the College (colonial) Juan Paul II, House

of the Colonel Teodoro Figueredo (next to the previous one); Children's home opposite the Plaza (colonial) Bolivar, There investigates Governor (colonial, modified); House of the Cultural club (Republican, 1856), I Surround where the General Ezekiel Zamora died.
Historical site(place) Kills Carmelera, where they killed the General Joaquín Crespo (1898), in the Municipality Anzoátegui.
I surround where they shot the General Matías Salazar (1872) in Tinaquillo, Av. Elevated place. Monument Arch of Taguanes (1913), place where I realize Taguanes's battle, Municipality Falcon, surrounds Tinaquillo.

Culture

Folklore: The music typical Cojedes's is the Venezuelan national dance interpreted to the compass of the harp, four and the maracas.
Also stand out the typical tunes of milking that are accompanied on the blows and traversed. Other manifestations folclóricas are:

San Pascual Bailón: They are celebrated from October 12 to October 13 in the peoples(villages) of Libertad and The Protection. It is done by promise.

Madmen and Locainas: A dance danced on December 28, Day of the Santos Inocentes, of backs to the church, to the sound of woodpeckers and chunks, tins, maracas, and four. The dancers take masks of wires and horns.

Devils Dancers: It is celebrated in the people(village) of Tinaquillo. His(her,your) wardrobe consists of a red monkey and a black cap that comes to the waist, besides the mask.

Nagged bulls: It is a common Sunday pastime and bank holidays. The scene(stage) is a sleeve of hundred or more meters of length for approximately ten meters of width, closed by a fence. The riders dispute for seizing the tail of the bull with the purpose of knocking down it or " to na

g it ".

You fight of roosters: They are effected(carried out) in a small circular, rustic amphitheatre in general, I roof of palm or zinc. He(she) competes(stations) for the roosters and beginning is given to the pesaje of the roosters and to the control of the spurs. A judge of fights takes decisions according to the established rules.