In August 1806, the shores of Falcon witnessed Francisco de Miranda's campaign of liberation, the first armed attempt to officially make Venezuela and Hispanic America independent from Spanish colonial rule.

In August 1806, the shores of Falcon witnessed Francisco de Miranda's campaign of liberation, the first armed attempt to officially make Venezuela and Hispanic America independent from Spanish colonial rule.

In command of the corvette Leander, the "harbinger of American emancipation" not only brought guns and printing presses to the continental shore, but also raised for the first time on land the tricolor flag that gave birth to the national flag of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.