According to the usage of the time, the settlers, mostly Canary Islanders, built the town following the grid shape of the central square, around which they located the church, the first public buildings, the market and the homes of the most notable families.

In the fertile Mariche valley, Coffee, Cocoa bean, Maize (or Corn) and Sugarcane farms proliferated; the latter was processed in the nearby mills to extract the sweet paper and the bitter liquor.

It was a wealthy society, not aristocratic, but with sufficient economic resources to acquire valuable objects and undertake ambitious works, such as the Church of the Sweet Name of Jesus and the Chapel of Saint Mary Magdalene.

Until the 1950s, approximately, the people of Caracas frequented the town and its surroundings, seduced by the beautiful landscape of cultivated fields and clear rivers, the bucolic image of the colonial-style houses and the mild temperatures between 23 and 25 degrees Celsius.

Among the illustrious visitors were the writer Teresa de La Parra, who spent some time at the Hacienda Güere-Güere; and Tito Salas, a painter who chose the El Toboso mansion as his residence next to the Baloa bridge on the Tuy railway, where he organized meetings for his friends, Andrés Eloy Blanco and Isaías Medina Angarita.

In this sense, on August 2, 1960, the Venezuelan State declared the Dulce Nombre de Jesús Church and the Santa María Magdalena Chapel National Historical Monuments.

Likewise, the Municipal Chamber of the Sucre District created, through the resolution of October 29, 1964, the Historic Center of Petare, in order to preserve this urban area, rich in testimonies of the cultural identity of Venezuela.

Despite these measures, the sector has suffered the demolition and modification of its old buildings, due to the indiscriminate establishment of commercial premises and transport stops to serve the enormous population of the neighboring urbanizations and neighborhoods.

[citation needed] Once again in pursuit of its salvation, on August 31, 1993, the Council of the Sucre Municipality issued the Ordinance for the Conservation and Development of the Historic Center of Petare, a document that regulates the use of the buildings and dictates the creation of a board special for the safeguarding and revitalization of the area.