Many of the settlers who settled in the area were Basque missionaries and encomenderos who founded Altagracia de Orituco on March 1, 1676.

Fray Anselmo Isidro de Ardales established the town of Tucupido in 1760 with groups of cumanagotes and palenques.

During the time of Spanish rule, Guarico was part of the Province of Caracas, which belonged to the Captaincy General of Venezuela.

The military chief José Tomás Boves defeated Vicente Campo Elías in La Puerta, near San Juan de los Morros, on February 3, 1814.

The Plains troops led by José Antonio Páez defeated the Royalist forces of Marshal Pablo Morillo on February 12, 1818.

Peasants and other poor people complained about social injustice and numerous groups criticized the political situation in which only a few elites held all the power.

The battle itself did not give clear results, but the continuation of the guerrilla warfare after this episode led to the signing of a peace agreement on April 23, 1863 between the Federalists and the Government.

On March 11, 1892, the caudillo Joaquín Crespo rose up against the president of that time, Raimundo Andueza Palacio, who had wanted to change the constitution at the beginning of 1892 in order to supposedly govern for two more years.

It is currently estimated that the capital, San Juan de los Morros is the most populated city in the state of Guarico, with 160,248 inhabitants.

This activity is linked to the agro-industrial sector, both supported by the existence of 16 reservoirs and three risk systems (Guárico, Orituco, and Tiznados rivers).

And within the timber activity, the production of wood in rola is located in the seventh place of the national total.

In the Boyacá Field located in the south-central part of Guárico State there are 8 oil blocks and reserves estimated at 489 billion barrels.

Its area is covered by savannahs and forests, rivers, lagoons and a rich flora of great color and beauty and a varied fauna.

It is located in the south of Guárico State, between the municipalities of Sebastián Francisco de Miranda and Las Mercedes.

It comprises the mountainous region of the Interior Range, between Santa Teresa del Tuy and Altagracia de Orituco.

Main source of water supply and treatment for the Orituco, especially for the valleys, and which is revealed in the area where the population of Guanape once existed.

The dam is built with cement, stone, and sand; its gates are constantly monitored by a control point, which is manually backed up if it does not work.

Throughout the region, it is common to find limestone massifs, caves furrowed by small watercourses, and deep vertical peaks.

Built in 1976, it supplies approximately 300 liters per second to San Juan de los Morros and is also a recreational park with activities planned and directed by groups based on government programs.

This festivity generally takes place in February in the city of Zaraza, being the main tourist attraction in that season in the whole llanoriental region, one of the main and most important carnivals in Venezuela, capable of attracting exorbitant numbers of tourists compared to other festivities of the same nature.

Characterized by the majesty with which large, illuminated and colorful floats and groups are made, besides that on the same date the "Agro-industrial Fairs of the Unare River Basin" are held in the city, placing Zaraza as one of the most important tourist destinations in the state and the country.

[citation needed] Religious and socio-cultural festivities that take place from September 21 to October 4, in Altagracia de Orituco, where the most famous national groups attend.

Religious and social festival held during the month of May, where the most famous reciters in the country sing "fulias" accompanied by music of cuatro, guitar, maracas, harp and drum.

There are states like Táchira where this fun has lost the accompanying music and there is only the custom of taking out "la burrita" to amuse children and adults with their capers running through the streets of the town.

Another well known dish throughout the country, but which in San Juan presents a variation is mondongo, since in addition to vegetables and beef, lemon, cattle feet and belly are added.

It is not only a danceable expression, but also a party where corridos, galerones, golpes, passages and other folkloric tonalities are sung and danced.

It takes place at any time of the year and the motive can be a baptism, birthday or the celebration of a patron saint's day.

The music of the joropo is played with typical instruments such as cuatro, maracas and harp, which accompany songs and choruses.

The zapateo and escobilleo, which are steps of the joropo, are mixed in the state with typical turns of the region like the remolino, the cuartao and the toriao.