Coro is the capital of Falc�n State and the oldest city in the west of Venezuela. It was founded on July 26, 1527 by Juan de Amp�es as Santa Ana de Coro. It is established at the south of the Paraguan� Peninsula in a coastal plain, flanked by the M�danos de Coro National Park to the north and the sierra de Coro to the south, at a few kilometers from its port (La Vela de Coro) in the Caribbean Sea at a point equidistant between the Ensenada de La Vela and Golfete de Coro.
It has a wide cultural tradition that comes from being the urban settlement founded by the Spanish conquerors who colonized the interior of the continent. It was the first capital of the Venezuela Province and head of the first bishop founded in South America in 1531. As Neu-Augsburg, it was the first German colony in the Americas under the Welsers. The precursor movement of the independence and of vindication of the dominated classes in Venezuela originated in this region; it is also considered to be the cradle of the Venezuelan federalist movement in the Republican era.
Thanks to its history, culture and its well-preserved colonial and republican architecture, it was appointed in 1993 as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, thus becoming the first site in Venezuela to be vested with this title. Since 2005 it is on the UNESCO World Heritage in Danger List
