Map - El Callao Municipality (Municipio El Callao)

The El Callao Municipality is one of the 11 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Bolívar and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 21,769. The town of El Callao is the shire town of the El Callao Municipality.

The town of El Callao, between the 18th century and 19th century centuries, before the arrival of the Spanish and the colony, was inhabited by the indigenous Maquiritare. Then some explorers settled in this territory looking for escaped slaves. These African slaves were in the vicinity of the Yuruari River and used this hiding place, if they were found they were returned to their work. But many of them stayed there because it was a perfect place to build a town, they killed and enslaved indigenous people from the area, and founded the town of El Callao. Over time, events would come that would make El Callao a population with several languages derived from the speech of African slaves in this region, mixed with that used by the English and French in their invasions of Spanish territories, and a few Creoles who speak Spanish. , in an almost entirely Spanish-speaking country. Large gold deposits were found in Yuruari, which made El Callao develop rapidly and led to the penetration of English and Brazilian miners. Recently the national government signed several treaties with various countries around the world to exploit it.

In 1854, the first miners settled in the area of ​​El Callao, dedicated to the exploitation of gold-bearing quartz in the area of ​​Ejidos de la Nueva Providencia de Caratal, on the banks of the Yuruari River. These miners were mostly immigrants from the Caribbean Antilles: San Marteen, Santa Lucía, San Cristóbal, Trinidad among others, generating a varied cultural conglomerate, both idiomatic and gastronomic, making this area of Guayana particularly rich and special culturally. because in this area English, Papiamento and other languages were spoken.

The municipality becomes official or is created on December 7, 1991. Along with the creation of the municipality came the coat of arms and the flag. The municipality clearly demonstrates its passion for football, by dedicating a barracks to it (specifically the right one), in its honor, and they also dedicate spaces to its main economy, gold, it is the left barracks, and in the lower one see the entire municipality.