[4] The mayor of the Santiago Mariño Municipality is Francisco J. Gerratana, elected on October 31, 2004 with 62% of the vote.

[2] Chuao is a small village founded in the 16th century famous in the world for its cacao plantations.

The village is surrounded by mountains and dense rainforests to the south Caribbean Sea near the Henri Pittier National Park.

There is no road access and visitors must come by boat from the town of Puerto Colombia along the coast, or by foot, crossing the mountains and the luxurious cloud forest from Turmero near Maracay.

Naive was the winner of the European gold medal at the International Chocolate Awards 2014.