turismoenjimenez: ENGLISH

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The Municipality this Jiménez located Geographically in the State Lara Este municipality borders on the municipalities Iribarren and Towers for the North; with the municipality Andrés Eloy Blanco for the South; for the East with the municipality Iribarren and with the municipalities Morán and Towers for the West. It possesses a surface of 768 Km2 that there shelters about 70.536 inhabitant, 4.89 per cent of total of condition Lara, which awards a demographic density of 91.84 hab/Km2. His capital is Quíbor, settlement in the one that lives through 50 per cent of the population of the municipality with 35.351 persons. 41.00 per cent is a 15-year-old minor.

Traditions

The procession of the Virgin of Altagracia:

The Virgin of Altagracia is the mistress of this people of farmers, reason for which every 3er on Friday of January the quiboreños produce honoring to his lofty mistress with a procession that Our Lady of Altagracia goes from the sanctuary the Hermitage up to in temple counterfoil in the downtown.

The burning of the bull of the Candlemas:

The 1 ° of February, day of the burning of Candelaria's bull, tradition that dates back of almost one century, the villagers and visitors meet in the squares Bolivar and Jiménez, to observe the great burning of Candelaria's bull. The squares become small due to the great multitude that celebrates this tradition quiboreña in honor to the Virgin of the Candlemas. The above mentioned bull is a pyrotechnic game that is ignited and that Our Lady of Altagracia turns about the Church up to going out, it is necessary to emphasize that the creators of this tradition it is the family Creek native of the zone

The procession of the Virgin of the Candlemas:
on February 2 a mass is celebrated in honor to the Virgin of Candelaria. On having concluded the mass, a procession begins quere traverses the surroundings of the squares with the image of the Virgin of Candelaria loaded in shoulders of some parishioners up to returning to the temple to be placed in the altar, there the parish expresses his happiness, love and faith christens for with the Holy Virgin. The image of Our Lady of Candelaria, it was brought by the first immigrants Canary and placed in his altar before 1776, according to testimony of the Monsignor M. martí. His flourishing confraternity was founded in 1900.

Tourist sites
Sanctuary The Hermitage. Where the Virgin of Altagracia is permanently. It is located in the avenue 19 between street 13 and agreed Pedro Leon Torres in quibor municipality Jimenez.

I moderate Counterfoil Our Lady of Altagracia, one of the biggest and beautiful of the condition Lara. Quibor's Baudilio Lara is located to the beginning of the avenue

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Anthropologic museum Francisco Tamayo, one of the most important of Venezuela. Pedro Leon Torres can locate in the avenue between streets 9 and 10 of Quibor.

Handcrafted mall " The Tripod ", in balloon route Cubiro, Tocuyo.

Villa "San Roman" of the Dr. Baudilio Lara Lara is in The avenue 8 between Pedro on Towers and street 11 Quibor.

Monument " The Tripod " executed by the Rotary Club Quíbor, route Cubiro.

Hills of Cubiro, of great tourist attraction for his cold climate all the year round.

Gastronomy

The season of the typical food Quiboreña is own and without equally; dare to taste the great variety of traditional plates, in any corner of this land, convinced that it will perceive such an authentic and peculiar flavor that of insurance they were asking about the ingredients. Prove and verify the genuine flavor of: Boiled of goat:

It is a soup or consomme realized with vegetables and the meat of goat.