Parroquia San Fernando

San Fernando de Atabapo is a Venezuelan city, capital of the Atabapo municipality of Amazonas State (Venezuela). It is located in the northwest of the municipality, at the confluence of the Orinoco, Guaviare and Atabapo rivers. By 2011, it had a population of 12,404 inhabitants. Among the most important buildings are: the Mayor's Office, the Municipal Chamber and the prefecture. The city has three basic and one diversified schools, a public library with Internet access, a Catholic church and an evangelical church, as well as the 1st Border Detachment Company No. 94 and a naval post. It also has a small port, an airport and the "María Garrido" outpatient hospital, where medical, dental, laboratory, pharmacy and malariology services are provided to the population (90% composed of indigenous people from the Piaroa and Curripaca ethnic groups) . Dr. José Solano founded San Fernando de Atabapo in 1758 on the indigenous town of Maracoa, then inhabited by Guaipuinabes tribes. It was burned and destroyed after 2 years of its founding and later rebuilt by the Capuchin missionary Fray José A. de Xerez in 1765. On April 24, 1800, Alexander von Humboldt visited the Conquita of Siquita entering San Fernando de Atabapo at the fall of the late. Among his illustrious visitors also include the Colonel and geographer of Italian origin Agustín Codazzi. In 1822, San Fernando de Atabapo became the first capital of the Canton of Río Negro, already independent, but belonging politically and administratively to the former Province of Guayana. In 1856, San Fernando de Atabapo became the capital of the territory that was organized as “Province of Amazonas”, under the mandate of José Tadeo Monagas and that after the promulgation of the Constitution of the United States of Venezuela of 1864, It becomes the Amazon Federal Territory, a situation that lasts until 1928, when the territorial capital moves to Puerto Ayacucho. In 1908, Colonel Tomás Funes arrives in Amazonas, who became one of the main rubber merchants for 1911. On May 8, 1913, Funes heads the movement that assaults the government house, where he kills Governor Roberto Pulido . Funes dies in the Plaza Bolívar of San Fernando de Atabapo on January 31, 1921, when General Emilio Arévalo Cedeño ordered his execution. To date his body remains buried in the same place where he died. San Fernando is the door through which traffic is distributed to the vast Ventuari-Manapiare region, to the mysterious region of Alto Orinoco, from the streams of Santa Bárbara to the south, facing the site where the great Guaviare River -from Colombia- It drains its earthy waters, rich in fish and the most important detail is the Atabapo-Temi River, which shortens the road to the South through the Guainía-Río Negro, on the borders with Colombia and Brazil.

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