Early history
The city was founded on July 26 of 1527 by Juan Mart�n de Ampu�s, with the name of Santa Ana de Coro. Amp�es covenanted to respect the authority of the Native chief Manaure highest authority of the natives of the region, the Caquetio people, This covenant is broken abruptly in 1529 with the landing at the city's first Governor and Captain General Ambrosius Ehinger representing the Welser, a banking and trading family. The family received the Province of Venezuela (as Klein-Venedig) from the Spanish crown for exploration, founding cities and exploitation of the resources of this vast territory that stretched from Cabo de la Vela(Guajira Peninsula) to Maracapana (near the city of Barcelona, Anzo�tegui). From Coro emerged multiple expeditions to the Venezuelan and Colombian Llanos, the Andes and the Orinoco River in search of El Dorado, which allowed the conquerors to explore these vast territories. The government of the Welsers ends in 1545 for breach of contract and conflict of interests between them and the Spanish conquistadors who explored the territory from other focal points of the Spanish Empire in America. The city is in its early days a "beachhead" or outpost of the Spanish during the conquest and colonization in the western and central Venezuela. From them left the expeditions of exploration and founding of new towns.
Santa Ana de Coro lost the political capital of the Venezuela Province (also known as the Coro Province in official documents of the time) in 1578 to Caracas, motivated by repeated invasions of pirates and especially to the harshness of its climate. Finally it was no longer the seat of the bishopric in 1636.
Fall and rise
During the seventeenth century Coro was hit by a hurricane and invasions of pirates, to the point where it appeared in the charts of English and French of the time with the title of "destroyed." However, these calamities left intact the field, with its productive power,
