Higuerote (Spanish pronunciation: [iɣeˈɾote]) is the capital city of Brión Municipality, located in the coastal region of Barlovento, in the state of Miranda, Venezuela, approximately an hour and a half from Caracas.

According to Bartolomé de las Casas, Dominican friar and human rights activist in the Spanish-controlled New World, in his A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, an unnamed Spanish adventurer exploited the goodwill and hospitality of the residents of this indigenous chiefdom.

The Cabo Codera Cape works like a giant barrier that prevents that the brown waters that pour out of the rivers diffuse towards the west, explaining thus the bright blue color that has the sea in the zone of El Banquito.

[citation needed] About 30 km north of the city is the Farallón Centinela, a large white and solitary rock of 3200 m2 that emerges 28 meters above the sea.

It has the sculpture of its patroness virgin Virgen del Carmen at the entrance, a monument about 7.5 meters high; Showing us the religious faith of the inhabitants of the town of Higuerote.