Mariche is the name of a former
native Venezuela
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tribe
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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,
Venezuela
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, 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
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Spaniards
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One of their more celebrated chiefs was
Tamanaco who led them in the fight against the Spanish
conquistadors during the 1560s and 1570s.
Indigenous peoples in Venezuela
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