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Guaro (Larense)

folkloric way to call the inhabitants of Lara State, Venezuela

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ5614178 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guaro is an informal descriptive term, or colloquial demonym, for people from Lara State, in Venezuela. It is also used by inhabitants of Lara, Yaracuy, Portuguesa, and Trujillo to refer to people (i.e. "ese guaro") much like "bloke" or "dude" is used in UK and US English. Also, in those regions, Guaro is an adjective used to describe someone who talks (or says) too much; being called guaro is regarded locally as a mark of an extroverted and talkative character. Guaroloco (crazy guaro) is traditionally said of mischievous or extroverted people. It's relatively easy to recognize the people from this region of Venezuela because of their extensive use of the word guaro and its derivatives.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 115-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Guaro, Larense and folkloric can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as folkloric way to call the inhabitants of Lara State, Venezuela. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guaro (Larense)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.