occupation juan de carvajal
Juan de Carvajal was a Spanish ___MASK73___ and one of the first Governors of the Venezuela Province . He founded El Tocuyo in 1545 . When Philipp von Hutten and Bartholomeus VI . Welser returned from a failed expedition to find El Dorado , Carvajal had them killed , and the Welser ' s colonial rights were withdrawn soon after , ending Klein - Venedig . The Spanish Empire was one of the largest empires in history . It reached the peak of its ___MASK82___ , political and economic power under the Spanish Habsburgs , through most of the 16th and 17th centuries , and its greatest territorial extent under the House of Bourbon in the 18th century , when it was the largest empire in the world . The Spanish Empire became the foremost global power of its time and was the first to be called " the empire on which the sun never sets ". Philipp von Hutten ( 18 December 1505  17 May 1546 ) was a German ___MASK89___ , and an early European ___MASK34___ of Venezuela . He is a significant figure in the history of Klein - Venedig ( 1528 - 1546 ), the concession of Venezuela Province to the Welser banking family by Charles I . of Spain . Klein - Venedig (" Little Venice ") was the most significant territory of the German colonization of the Americas , from 1528 to 1546 , in which the Welser banking family of Augsburg obtained colonial rights in the Province of Venezuela in return for debts owed by Charles I of Spain . The primary motivation was the search for the legendary golden city of " El Dorado ". The venture was led at first by Ambrosius Ehinger , who founded Maracaibo in 1529 . After the deaths of Ehinger ( 1533 ) and then his successor Georg von Speyer ( 1540 ), Philipp von Hutten continued exploration in the interior , and in his absence from the capital of the province the crown of Spain claimed the right to appoint the ___MASK43___ . On Hutten ' s return to the capital , Santa Ana de Coro , in 1546 , the Spanish ___MASK43___ Juan de Carvajal had von Hutten and Bartholomeus VI . Welser executed . The ___MASK88___ Charles I revoked Welser ' s charter . Georg von Speyer ( 1500 , Speyer , Holy Roman Empire  11 June 1540 , Coro , Venezuela ) was a German ___MASK73___ in New Granada , now Venezuela and Colombia . His birth name was Georg Hohermuth but he chose to call himself after his place of birth . He is sometimes referred to as Jorge de la Espira , his name in Spanish . He is a significant figure in the history of Klein - Venedig ( 1528 - 1546 ), the concession of Venezuela Province to the Welser banking family by Charles I of Spain . El Dorado (; Spanish for " the golden one "), originally " El Hombre Dorado " ( the golden man ), or " El Rey Dorado " ( the golden ___MASK22___ ), was the term used by the Spanish Empire to describe a mythical ___MASK61___ (" zipa ") of the Muisca native people of Colombia , who , as an initiation rite , covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita . The legends surrounding El Dorado changed over time , as it went from being a man , to a city , to a kingdom , and then finally an empire . Welser was a German banking and ___MASK52___ family , originally a patrician family from Augsburg , that rose to great prominence in international high finance in the 16th century as financiers of Charles V , Holy Roman ___MASK88___ . Along with the Fugger family , the Welser family controlled large sectors of the European economy , and accumulated enormous wealth through trade and the German colonization of the Americas . The family received colonial rights of the Province of Venezuela from the Charles I King of Spain in 1528 , becoming owners and rulers of the South American colony of Klein - Venedig ( within modern Venezuela ), but were deprived of their rule in 1556 . Philippine Welser ( 1527  1580 ), famed for both her learning and her beauty , was married to Archduke Ferdinand , ___MASK88___ Ferdinand I ' s son . A ___MASK52___ is a business person who trades in commodities produced by other people in order to earn a profit . The status of the ___MASK52___ has varied during different periods of history and among different societies . Merchants have often been the subject of works of art . Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments . It includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainty and risk . Finance can also be defined as the ___MASK66___ of money management . Finance aims to price assets based on their risk level and their expected rate of return . Finance can be broken into three different sub - categories : public finance , corporate finance and personal finance . Barquisimeto is a city in Venezuela . It is the capital of the state of Lara and head of Iribarren Municipality . It is an important urban , industrial , ___MASK56___ and transportation center of the country , recognized as the fourth - largest city by population and area in Venezuela after Caracas , Maracaibo and Valencia . Ambrosius Ehinger , also ( Ambrosio Alfínger in Spanish ) Dalfinger , Thalfinger , ( ca . 1500 in Thalfingen near Ulm , Bavaria  31 May 1533 near Chinácota Colombia ) was a German ___MASK73___ and the first ___MASK43___ of the Welser concession , also known as  Little Venice  ( Klein - Venedig ), in New Granada , now Venezuela and Colombia . Colombia ( or ), officially the Republic of Colombia , is a transcontinental country largely situated in the northwest of South America , with territories in Central America . Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama , to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and Peru . It shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica , ___MASK59___ , Honduras , Jamaica , the Dominican Republic and Haiti . It is a unitary , constitutional republic comprising thirty - two departments . The territory of what is now Colombia was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples including the Muisca , the Quimbaya and the Tairona . Charles V (; Dutch : " Karel ") ( 24 February 1500  21 September 1558 ) was ___MASK31___ of both the Spanish Empire from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 , as well as of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1506 . He voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556 . Through inheritance , he brought together under his rule extensive territories in western , central , and southern Europe , and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia . As a result , his domains spanned nearly four million square kilometers and were the first to be described as " the empire on which the sun never sets ". El Tocuyo is a fertile valley and city in west - central Venezuela at elevation . It is located in south - central Lara State about 60 km southwest of Barquisimeto . The town of El Tocuyo was founded by Juan de Carvajal in 1545 on the banks of the Tocuyo River and it was the administrative capital of Venezuela Province from 1546 to 1548 . Its original name was Nuestra Señora de la Pura y Limpia Concepción del Tocuyo . El Tocuyo is now just the municipal seat of Morán . Its population is 41 , 327 ( 2001 ).