[1] Its origin can be located in the 19th century, when Spanish and Portuguese Jews from the Dutch colony of Curaçao began to migrate to the Venezuelan city of Santa Ana de Coro in 1824.

The cemetery started to function in 1832 by Mr. Joseph Curiel[2] and his wife, Debora Levy Maduro, who had bought a plot of land near the city to bury their daughter, Hana.

[4] The cemetery is also the grave of the Venezuelan poet of Sephardic Jewish origin Elias David Curiel.

Since 2005 Santa Ana de Coro has been on the list of World Heritage in Danger due to heavy rains affecting all historic constructions in the city.

An agreement was signed in 2009 between the Caracas Center for Sephardic Studies, representing the IAV, and Constructora Sambil, which is a construction company owned by Salomon Cohen of famous Jewish family, to rebuild the cemetery.