High house of Ingenio, property of Simon Bolivar was the main witness of the Battle of San Mateo and the sacrifice of Captain Antonio Ricaurte

who was in charge of it was the Republican Army’s main powder and ammunition depot.

Ricaurte and a small group of soldiers were guarding the place. On March 25, 1814, José Tomas Boves made a surprise visit to the property with the firm objective of seizing the cargo.

At the time Ricaurte watched the realistic troops come down the hill,

He quickly orders the house to be vacated and waits for the realists to enter,

At that moment he set fire to the gunpowder by blowing up the deposit, in a great gesture of sacrifice for the homeland where he died.

• My dears from #steemit. The Bolívar Ingenio is located in a village in the state of Aragua (Venezuela), where the museum of sugar cane is located... There are many anecdotes of Simon Bolivar boy playing in this house below where Antonio Ricaute (hero of the homeland) sacrifices himself by flying the magazine so that Boves did not get these munitions.

👉 All the mountain and landscape you can see to the surroundings; formerly was a sugar cane farm of the Bolivar family. When Simon was a baby, he was breastfed there by the Black Hippolyte.

The black Hipólita, native of San Mateo, was born in 1763. She was a slave of the family Bolívar Palacios,

When Simon is born (1783) the family is forced to find him a nurse, it is she who has the responsibility to nurse him; to care for him as his son

The 20-year-old black slave is obliged to take care of this young boy as his parents were very sick. But long before that, Hipólita had married Mateo Bolívar who was another slave in another hacienda. Many times the current Venezuelan confuses Negra Matea with Hipólita, but they are not the same person. Matea was born when Bolívar was already 10 years old, later she became the young man’s study partner.

This place will always be remembered as a strategic point in Venezuelan history. The energy you feel is very intense, full of passion and battle, since childhood I have visited space many times and every time I go I discover something new.

Museum of sugarcane:

Main mill

Stables.

Grinding stones

Tunnels

Ancient vessels and carts.

I hope this short tour has been to everyone’s liking, while we are in quarantine, I want you to be distracted and travel virtually, I want to show you my beautiful country. The performance of Madre Hipólita I did with a popular culturist in 2015 All the images are made by me, with a 3mpxl camera...