Caripe was founded as a Catholic Indian mission Chaymas on October 12, 1734 by the Capuchin missionary Pedro de Gelsa. The original name was Santo Angel Custodio Caripe Caripe, but is best known by the name of Caripe Guácharo, to differentiate it from a nearby village called Caripito.
The village was located on land belonging to an Indian named Captain Esteban Caripe. The Indian captain, whose name was extended to the people and the whole valley, co-founded and was convinced Chaymas 18 families to live on the mission. Caripe word means "river of squirrels" in language Chaim.
On June 8, 1780 was completed to build a hospice in the Aragonese Capuchins to welcome the missionaries of that order were sick or elderly. Caripe thus became the headquarters of the Capuchin missions in eastern Venezuela. In 1799 the German scientist Alexander von Humboldt and French Caripe Aimee Bonpland visited as part of his trip to Venezuela. Other famous explorers who traveled the people were Italian Agustín Codazzi (1835) and German Bellermann Ferdinand (1843).
Many people from the states of Sucre and Nueva Esparta settled there. In the late nineteenth century began to settle immigrants from various Caripe Italian and Corsican, who brought advanced methods of cultivating the land and inventions such as the power plant, the phonograph, the sheet of zinc, the waterwheel, cement, silent movies, the piano player and others. Besides the Italian and Corsican created the first large wineries and coffee plantations. Italian surnames or brace that still exist in Caripe are: Luongo, Giliberti, Castellin, mobility, Vicentelli, Cirigliano, Tepedino, Simonpietri, Pietrini, La Greco, Demari, Martorano, etc.
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