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Estado Monagas


State flag	State Coat of Arms

Monagas State Anthem

Motto: Resistió con valor
(Spanish: Resisted with courage)

Location within Venezuela

Created
(given current status) 1909

State capital Maturín

Area
•% 28,900 km²
3,15 (Ranked )

Population
•% 855,300 hab. (2007 est.)
3,26 (Ranked )

Emblematic tree The Palma de Moriche
(Mauritia flexuosa)

ISO 3166-2 VE-N

Governor José Briceño
2004 - 2008

Website: Gobernación del Estado Monagas

Estado Monagas is one of the 23 states (estados) into which Venezuela is divided.

The state capital is Maturín.

Monagas State covers a total surface area of 28,900 km² and, in 2007, had an estimated population of 855,300.

1 Municipalities and municipal seats
2 Governors of Monagas State
3 Notable natives
4 Source
5 See also

[edit] Municipalities and municipal seats

Acosta (San Antonio)
Aguasay (Aguasay)
Bolívar (Caripito)
Caripe (Caripe)
Cedeño (Caicara)
Ezequiel Zamora (Punta de Mata)
Libertador (Temblador)
Maturín (Maturín)
Piar (Aragua de Maturín)
Punceres (Quiriquire)
Santa Bárbara (Santa Bárbara)
Sotillo (Barrancas)
Uracoa (Uracoa)

[edit] Governors of Monagas State

Until 1989 the heads of Venezuelan states were appointed by the President of Venezuela. Starting from that year they are elected in universal, direct and secret elections. At the beginning the regional heads of states were known as Presidents of States, later they were called Governors. This is a list of the heads of Monagas state.^[1]

Governors of the Province of Maturín (1856-62)

Gral. Valentín Machado,
Pedro Sifontes,
Jesús María Vallenilla,
José Antonio López P.,
Zabulón Valverde,
Joaquín Núñez,
Francisco J. Gordon,
José R. Rodríguez Guerra,
Luis Mijares Zerpa.
Gral. Manuel B. Fonseca (1863, Provisional President)

(1863-64)

José Manuel García.
José Félix Lares.
Félix Salazar.

Governors of Nueva Andalucía State, which Maturín belonged to (1865-68)

Gral. José E, Acosta. (1865, Constitutional President)
Gral. Antonio Russián. (1866-68, First Appointed)
Gral. José S. González. (September 1868, Constitutional President)
Gral. Manuel López Alcalá. (1868)

Governors of Maturín

José Ramón Ramírez. (1865-68)

Provisional Government: (1868)

Gral. José A. López,
José María Núñez,
Gral. Mateo Sosa.

Civil and Military Chiefs

Gral. Ángel Romero. (1869)
Gral. Manuel Guzmán Álvarez. (1870)
Gral. Rómulo Camino. (1872, Provisional President)
Gral. Manuel Guzmán Álvarez. (1873, Constitucional President)
Gral. Rómulo Camino. (1874, First Appointed)
Gral. Diego B. Ferrer. (1875, First Appointed)
Gral. Antonio Valverde. (1876, Second Appointed)
Gral. Manuel Guzmán Álvarez. (1877, Constitucional President)
Gral. Emilio Himiob. (1877, First Appointed)
José Antonio Vázquez. (1878, Second Appointed)
Gral. Jesús M. Vallenilla. (1878, President)
Gral. Santos Carrera. (1879, Vicepresident)
Gral. Venancio Simosa. (1880, Provisional President)
Gral. Santos Carrera. (January to May 1881, Constitutional President)
Gral. Fermín Carrera. (1881, Governor)
Gral. Joaquín Díaz. (1881, Governor)
Gral. Carrera. (1882, Governor)

Presidents of Monagas State. XXth Century

J. V. Guevara. (1901)
Gral. Pablo Giuseppi Monagas. (1910, Provisional President)
Gral. Emilio Fernández (1911-13)
Gral. José J. Aróstegui. (1914, Counsellor in charge of the Presidency).
Gral. Manuel Ángeles. (1916)
Br. Emilio Pérez Hernández. (1918)
Gral. Pedro Ducharme. (1922-24)
Gral. Manuel Ledesma. (1925-28)
Cnel. Juan Pablo López Centeno. (1936-37)
Andrés Rolando M. (1937)
Ten. Cnel. Alejandro Rascaniere. (1938-39)
José María Isava Núñez. (1939-42)
Cnel. Francisco Conde García. (1942-45)
Pablo II. Higuera. (1945)
Dr. Rafael Rodríguez Méndez. (1946-48)
Pablo Higuera. (1948)
Dr. Ramón Rojas Guardia. (1949)
Dr. Alirio Ugarte Pelayo. (1949-51)
Dr. Horacio Guerrero Gori. (1952)
Dr. Giliberti Gómez. (1953)
Dr. Federico Scholoeter. (1953)
Dr. Domingo Colmenares Vivas. (1954-57)

Governors of Monagas State since 1958

Temístocles Núñez R. (1958-59)
Dr. Jorge Yibirín Marún (1959-60)
Luis Piñerúa Ordaz. (1960-61)
Dr. Armando Sánchez Bueno. (1961-62)
Darío Rodríguez Méndez. (1963-64)
Noel Grisanti Luciani. (1964-65)
Luis Alfaro Ucero. (1966-68)
Ing. José Tomás Milano Parma. (1968-69)
Ing. Humberto Anderson. (1969)
Dr. Rafael Solórzano Bruce. (1969-73)
Dr. Pedro Cardier Gago. (1973-74)
Gral. Martín Márquez Añez. (1974-78)
Ing. Manuel García B. (1978-79)
Dr. Pablo Morillo Robles. (1979-83)
Lic. Luis Guevara Manosalva. (1983-84)
Dr. Pedro Cabello Poleo. (1984-86)
Ing. Guillermo Call. (1986-87)
Prof. Pedro Augusto Beauperthuy. (1987-89)

Governors chosen by Popular Election

Ing. Guillermo Call. (1990-92); (1993-95) Acción Democrática
Ing. Luis Eduardo Martínez Hidalgo. (1996-1998); (1999-2000) Acción Democrática
Dr. Miguel Gómez. (2000) Movimiento Quinta República
Ing. Guillermo Call. (2001-2004) Acción Democrática
José Gregorio Briceño. (2004-) Migato, Movimiento Quinta República

[edit] Notable natives

This is a list of notable natives of Monagas state.^[2]

From Amana of Tamarindo, town of Maturín municipality

José Tadeo Monagas, general of the Venezuelan independence and president.

From Barrancas

Alarico Gómez, poet, novelist and journalist.

From Caicara

Manuel Núñez Tovar, doctor and entomologist.

From Caripe

Félix Antonio Calderón, poet.

From Caripito

Doris Wells, actress.
Juvenal Ravelo, artist.

From Chaguaramal, town of Piar municipality

Juana Ramírez (a.k.a. Juana la Avanzadora) heroine of the Venezuelan independence.
Leonardo Infante, general of the Venezuelan independence.

From Guanaguana, town of Piar municipality

Antonio Ciliberto Pérez, poet and novelist.

From Maturín

Andrés Rojas, general of the Venezuelan independence.
Carlos Möhle, musician, composer and dentist.
José Gabriel Núñez Romberg, musician.
José Antonio Núñez Romberg, mathematician, teacher and historian.
Félix Armando Núñez, poet, teacher und dean of Chile's university.
Idelfonso Núñez Mares, poet and teacher.
Eloy Palacios, sculptor.
José María Núñez, historian.
Benito Raúl Lozada, poet and writer.

From Musipán, town of Ezequiel Zamora municipality

Benjamín Rausseo (a.k.a. Er Conde del Guácharo), television comedian.

From San Antonio

Julián Padrón, writer, journalist and lawyer.
William H. Phelps, ornithologist and founder of RCTV.
Carlos Salazar Liccioni, poet, novelist.
Julio Gómez Peñalver, dentist, teacher and poet.

From Uracoa

Mateo Manaure, painter, artist.
Jesús Rafael Zambrano, journalist, lawyer, writer.

[edit] Source

^ [González Oropeza, Hermann(1985): Historia del Estado Monagas. Ediciones Amon C.A., Caracas. (Biblioteca de Temas y Autores Monaguenses; Colección Guanipa; Ensayos e Investigaciónes).]
^ [González Oropeza, Hermann(1985): Historia del Estado Monagas. Ediciones Amon C.A., Caracas. (Biblioteca de Temas y Autores Monaguenses; Colección Guanipa; Ensayos e Investigaciónes).]

[edit] See also

States of Venezuela

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Political Divisions of Venezuela

Capital District:	Caracas
States:	Amazonas \| Anzoátegui \| Apure \| Aragua \| Barinas \| Bolívar \| Carabobo \| Cojedes \| Delta Amacuro \| Falcón \| Guárico \| Lara \| Mérida \| Miranda \| Monagas \| Nueva Esparta \| Portuguesa \| Sucre \| Táchira \| Trujillo \| Vargas \| Yaracuy \| Zulia
Federal dependencies:	Los Monjes Archipelago \| Las Aves Archipelago \| Isla Aves \| Los Hermanos Island \| Islas Los Frailes \| Los Roques Archipelago \| La Sola Island \| La Tortuga Island \| La Orchila \| La Blanquilla Island \| Los Testigos Island \| Isla de Patos