Mariche

Mariche is the name of a former

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. Not much information from them as a tribe has survived to the present day. It is known that their descendants lived in what is now called Filas de Mariches, distrito Sucre, Estado Miranda and in the area of El Hatillo both near

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

, where they lived very close to several Karina (Carib) tribes. Reports by some scholars claim that Mariche natives inhabited a site called Guayana long before the discovery of South America by the

Spaniards Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a Romance ethnic group native to Spain. Within Spain, there are a number of national and regional ethnic identities that reflect the country's complex history, including a number of different languages, both ...

. One of their more celebrated chiefs was Tamanaco who led them in the fight against the Spanish

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s during the 1560s and 1570s. Indigenous peoples in Venezuela {{SouthAm-ethno-group-stub