GUARICO, a large inland State of Venezuela, and having a river of the same name. Pop. (1926), 125,282. It extends across the northern llanos to the Orinoco and Apure rivers and is devoted almost wholly to pastoral pursuits, exporting cattle, horses and mules, hides and skins, cheese and some other products. The capital is Calabozo, pop. (1926), 7,551, and the other principal towns are Camaguan (pop. 3,053) on the Portugueza river, Guayabal (pop. 4,447), on a small tributary of the Guarico river, and Zaraza (pop. 19,804) on the Unare river, nearly i5om. S.E. of Caracas.