Los Teques ) is the capital of the state of Miranda and the municipality of Guaicaipuro Municipality. It is located in the capital region of north-central Venezuela. More specifically, southwest of Caracas, 10° 21' 00" N latitude and 67° 02' 30" W Greenwich, 1,169 m above sea level. It is located in the Cordillera de la Costa, on the banks of the Río San Pedro, descending from an area located in the northeast. According to the Office for National Statistics in 2016, Los Teques has a population of 252,242 people. The city is considered to be part of the agglomeration known as Greater Caracas. History Fifty-two years after Guaicaipuro's death, the city of Santiago de los Altos was founded in 1620, the first city after the founding of Caracas. The founders, mostly of Spanish descent, arrived with Diego de Losada, perhaps where the name came from, in honor of the founding captain of Caracas. By the 1600s, Los Teques became part of the encomienda, and the conquered lands that currently include Los Teques were allocated to Andrés González, a companion of Francisco Fajardo and Francisco Tostado de la Peña. They then passed on to Captain Juan de Ascanio and Correa de Benavides, and the tradition of ownership continued with Diego de Miquilena, who sold it in 1684 to Doña Melchora Ana Tovar Ibáñez, the widow of Captain Juan de Ascanio. Seventy years later, the same land was owned by Juan de Ascanio and Correia de Benavides, by the end of the century From 1772 onwards, the Spanish inhabitants of San Pedro de Los Altos began to relocate to a village that had only 99 inhabitants. Five years later, they founded their new settlement as Los Teques on 21 October 1777. The new town's name was derived from the Aractoeques Carabs, an indigenous tribe that once inhabited the area. On February 13, 1927, the capital of the Miranda State was moved to this city from Petare (before being in Petare, the capital of Miranda was in Ocumare del Tuy). Neighboring tribes that settled in the area were: Cumanagotos, Arahuacos, Tacariguas, Quiriquires, Caruaos, Tomuzas, Meregotes, Caracas. All of these peoples lived by hunting, farming, and a trade called barter. They also built houses called shacks, ranches or Troy huts using materials found in the area. In 1781 it had 1,500 inhabitants, Alejandro de Homburg called it "a miserable town" in 1800, and