Venezuelans from Guarico State (reloaded)

**alnortedelsur** · 10-09-2021, 05:59 AM

As I mentioned to the user ParaguayoFHD, some of my Venezuelan's states threads were screwed up because of missing pictures no longer available in Facebook. So, I am remaking the threads of some of the states, but this time saving the pictures on my PC and loading them to the cloud, so that way the pics I post stay there permanently. Here we go, Guarico state again...

The state of Guarico, located in the Venezuelan llanos (central plains of the country) is located in the very center of the country.

Location of Guarico state within the Venezuelan territory:

Map of the different municipalities of Guarico state, just in case any of you were interested to look up the exact location of the pics and videos that I post:

Most of the state, for being mostly in the Venezuelan llanos, is plain, except for its most northern parts, that are in the outskirts of the interior mountain range (Serrania del Interior). San Juan de Los Morros, the state capital is located in the outskirts of the Serrania del Interior. Relief map of the state:

Some common people from Altagracia de Orituco, small city located in the municipality of Monagas, in the North east of the state:

**alnortedelsur** · 10-09-2021, 06:18 AM

Some primary and high school students from San Juan de Los Morros, the state capital:

**alnortedelsur** · 10-09-2021, 06:23 AM

More people from Altagracia de Orituco, Guarico:

**alnortedelsur** · 10-09-2021, 06:26 AM

Venezuelan Actress Gabriela Spanic, of partial Croatian origin (her dad is Croatian), is native from this state (from Ortiz, in the Northwest corner of the state, to be more exact):

**LorenzoSpitaleri** · 10-09-2021, 05:53 PM

The high school students seem a bit more euro than usual but the people overall look like a harnizoid average with a bit less african replaced by far more native mix

**Gauthier** · 10-09-2021, 11:05 PM

Many of them don't show any negroid influence. Most have a pan-hispanic phenotype.

**alnortedelsur** · 10-10-2021, 05:41 AM

Originally Posted by LorenzoSpitaleri

The high school students seem a bit more euro than usual but the people overall look like a harnizoid average with a bit less african replaced by far more native mix

I think the high school students from my second post are students from private schools, so yeah, they a bit more euro than usual for the state. But as I explained in the thread of Barinas state, in very interior parts of Venezuela, like in the llanos, the racial differences between the middle to upper class people and the lower/working class people is not that stark/pronounced as in Caracas and other large cities of the northern Central region, like Maracay, Valencia, Los Teques, etc.

So, if they are a bit more Euro shifted than usual compared the state average, is not by much. Some of the crowds I posted from Altagracia de Orituco (in the first and third posts) are more representative of the whole population, and as it can be seen, the difference between them and the students from the private schools in San Juan de Los Morros (second post), is not very much.

I totally agree with your description of the overall ethnography of this state. And I think that description also applies to lots of interior Venezuelan states, like all the llanero states (Monagas, interior of Anzoategui, Guarico, Cojedes, Portuguesa, Barinas, Apure) and Lara (your state).

**alnortedelsur** · 10-10-2021, 05:57 AM

Originally Posted by Gauthier

Many of them don't show any negroid influence. Most have a pan-hispanic phenotype.

Yeap, lots of Venezuelans from interior Venezuelan states (like Guarico and many other Venezuelan interior states), plus lots of middle to upper class people in large Venezuelan cities like Caracas, Maracay, Valencia, Barquisimeto, Maracaibo, Barcelona-Puerto La Cruz, Ciudad Guayana, etc (and even some lower class people from those large cities are mestizos) are people who don't show any negroid influence, and can be from mestizoid with pan-hispanic phenotypes (mestizos, harnizos, catizos) to totally white-looking.

And that without mentioning that in the Venezuelan Andes (states of Trujillo, Merida and Tachira) most people are into the mestizo/Euro-mestizo/white spectrum, and have an ethnography very similar to most of the Colombian Andes, Northern/Western Mexico, Paraguay and Chile.

**LorenzoSpitaleri** · 10-11-2021, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by alnortedelsur

I totally agree with your description of the overall ethnography of this state. And I think that description also applies to lots of interior Venezuelan states, like all the llanero states (Monagas, interior of Anzoategui, Guarico, Cojedes, Portuguesa, Barinas, Apure) and Lara (your state).

Larenses have a bit more negroid imo. Not that strong but it shows a bit more.