Tuñame: Between the years 1,590 and approximately, the missionaries José Vílchez and Felipe Segovia, discovered the beautiful Tuñakake Valley, named after the group of Indigenous Timoto - Cuicas that lived there in whose language meant "Cold Moon", some time later, making use of the Spanish customs, its residents called Tuñame, as an appellative to its original name in Indian language.
The Tuñame Valley is located southeast of Trujillo State, southeast of Urdaneta Municipality. Your limits are:
To the north with: La Quebrada and Cabimbú, Urdaneta Municipality,
To the south with: the Sierra de la Culata and Pueblo Llano, Mérida State,
To the east with: Las Mesitas de Niquitao, Municipio Boconó,
To the west with: the Mesa de Esnujaque y Jajò, Urdaneta Municipality
It has an altitude of 2800 m.s.n.m. at a temperature of 10 ° C to 16 ° C. It is a privileged site due to the fact that it is a paramo, that is, the natural ecosystem that has wild plants like the frailejón.
Nowadays it has a population of approximately 16,000 inhabitants.
The inhabitants sow according to the lunar cycles inherited from their ancestors, they do it in the following way:
In the Waning, onion, potato, carrot, cauliflower, broccoli, garlic, and porro are sown.
In the Growing of every month, all types of crops are sowed, except for the months of December, January and February, due to the scarcity of water.
In full moon of each month are fifteen days of waning and fifteen days of increase, you can prune all kinds of plants and weeding the crops.