[4] The mayor of the Naguanagua County is Alejandro Feo la Cruz, elected on November 23, 2008, with 45% of the vote.

The name Naguanagua is a derivation of the name of the chief who ruled the settlement and the surrounding region, Nagoanagoa.

Naguanagua was granted its own parish on 14 May 1782 by the Bishop of Caracas Don Mariano Martí.

The campus is quite large and operates as a separate community with its own security, transportation, and legislative body.

One of the stations will be in Naguanagua municipality, and it is planned that there will be an interchange connecting the national rail system with the Valencia Metro.

In 2016 work on the Puerto Cabello railway was described as "irregular and marked by slow payments by the client as a result of the country’s poor economic conditions, mainly related to the drop in the price of oil.