Among the primary landmarks of the city are the Monument to the Flag, the mountain range Arístides Rojas (known as Morros de San Juan), the Monument to San Juan Bautista, El Platillón hill, the monument to the Beata Guariqueña, Madre Candelaria de San José, La Villa Olímpica, and the thermal waters (baños termales), which have great significance in the city due to the medicinal properties of its sulphuric waters (that is, because of the amount of sulphur that its waters possess): such is its effectiveness and fame, that from ancient times, once he became President of Venezuela, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, constructed the first highway to the city, which grants entry to this restoration supply that his own circle of relative physician had recommended.
San Juan de los Morros has a weather of 24 to 32 °C and its remedy is ruled via way of means of mountains, which evaluation with the plains of the relaxation of the state.
San Juan de Los Morros has a climate of 24 to 32 degrees Celsius and is dominated by surrounding mountains, which contrasts with the plains of the rest of the state.
With the arrival of the Spanish missionaries, the Indians of this vicinity obtained Western customs of dressing, along with cotton planting, when indigenous females learned how to spin.
This was how San Juan de los Morros began to be populated in the sixteenth century, in the beginning based on the means of those European visitors, who named it after mountainous formations on the outskirts of the city.
[citation needed] San Juan de los Morros, positioned in the mid-north of the country, is a metropolis of sports, travel and college campus of Guárico State, being the gateway to the Central Plains.
It seems that by the end of the sixteenth century, the notable landowner, Garci González de Silva, visited its "Morros" filled with gold fever, which was simply referred to as "San Juan".
During the Venezuelan War of Independence, in 1812, because of the inexplicable fall of the Republic into the arms of Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda, the royalist leader Antoñanzas, ultimate to its inhabitants, as he might additionally in Calabozo.
And on a small hill, Juan Vicente Gómez constructed the spacious villa of La Mulera, at the bridge of the identical call below, all in reminiscence of what he had needed to go away at the back of withinside the far-off State of Táchira.
This is primarily based totally on 1901, withinside the Historical Site of La Puerta, with a warfare, Gómez triumphs over Luciano Mendoza.
That warfare made him notable, and he commenced to turn out to be familiar with the town, decreeing in 1913 the reconstruction of the street from La Villa to San Juan, ordering the development of the spa in 1916, starting the Thermal Hotel in 1920 and his visits increasing.
Those who visit Guárico State will be able to taste a wide variety of dishes and desserts typical to this region, with mixtures that go from the simplest, to the most elaborate and that honor the feel of the Llanero.
The symbolic dish par excellence is the "Pisillo Guariqueño", a fried food seasoned with garlic and bell pepper in which the strands of salting and sun-dried deer (as well as cattle) meat are curled, fish or capybara.
Another well-known dish throughout the national territory, but which in San Juan presents a variation is "tripe", since in addition to vegetables and beef, lemon, cattle legs and belly are added.
You cannot forget the "panela guarapo", made with brown paper dissolved in water with lemon and ice, a special mixture to appease the heat of the city.
The choice of desserts is headed by the traditional "dulce de leche", made with this fruit, cut into slices and cooked in a molasses of water with paper and fig leaves.
In the lowland region (Los Llanos), it's not unusual to enjoy occasions with cultural and non-secular reasons, wherein Guariqueños are trying to find to exalt their ideals and their famous sentiment at distinct instances of the year.
Most of them, along with the "joropo" dance, the tailed bulls and the Velorio de los Angeles Cruz, are practiced all through the countrywide territory, with sure changes relying at the region.
The clearest part of the year in San Juan de Los Morros begins around December 12; It lasts 3.3 months and ends around March 21.