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first enslaved Africans arrived in Cubagua between 1526 and 1527 to work in pearl fishing. In 1528, Cristóbal Guerra founded the city of Nueva Cádiz, the first settlement to hold the title of "city" in Venezuela. The city which reached a population between 1,000 and 1,500, became a synonym for the suppression by the Hispanic Conquistadores in South America. By 1531 the depletion of the pearl oyster

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