Venezuela Province

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Province of Caracas Provincia de Caracas
1527–1864
Cross of Burgundy Coat of arms of Venezuela
Provincia de Venezuela y las Guayanas
Status	Province of the Spanish Empire
Capital	Santa Ana de Coro - (1527 - 1546) El Tocuyo - (1546 - 1577) Caracas - (from 1577)
Common languages	Spanish
Religion	Roman Catholicism Lutheran Protestant envoys sent on behalf of the Welser family (1528-1546)
Government	Monarchy (before 1811) Republic (after 1811)
King (before 1811) President (after 1811)
Historical era	Spanish colonization
• Royal decree	1527
• Concession to the Welser family (Klein-Venedig)	1528
• Concession revoked, end of Klein-Venedig	1546
• Viceroyalty of New Granada	1717
• Captaincy General of Venezuela	1777
• Dissolved after Federal War	1864
Currency	Spanish colonial real
ISO 3166 code	VE
Preceded by Succeeded by New Spain Viceroyalty of New Granada Captaincy General of Venezuela Klein-Venedig Venezuela
Today part of	Venezuela

The Venezuela Province (or Province of Caracas) was a province of the Spanish Empire (from 1527), of Gran Colombia (1824–1830) and later of Venezuela (from 1830), apart from an interlude (1528–1546) when it was contracted as a concession by the King of Spain to the German Welser banking family, as Klein-Venedig.