Write to the chronicler
There is no contact form, and that is deliberate: the buttons on this page open a message already written in your own WhatsApp or e-mail, and it goes straight to him. Nothing passes through this site.
Jesús María «Chuma» Espinoza Marín
Historian and Official Chronicler of Miranda municipality · Timotes, Mérida state, Venezuela
Contribute a photograph or a document
A portrait, a postcard, a newspaper clipping, a family paper. This portal’s archive was built exactly that way, from what people kept at home.
If you send it over WhatsApp, send it as a “Document”, not as a “Photo”. Sent as a photo, WhatsApp re-compresses it and strips the camera date; the original can be catalogued, the compressed copy cannot.
Correct or complete a fact
Many of the phone numbers, opening hours and addresses on this site come from the 1997 edition of the guide and are flagged as unconfirmed. If you know what has changed, say so.
Place a site on the map
Fifty of the places he gathered still have no coordinates. They appear on no map: they live in the memory of those who have walked them. If you know where one of them is, that is the missing piece.
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Ask about a book
His published work, nearly all of it in short print runs and much of it out of print. Availability is confirmed with him, title by title.
Invite him, or request his participation
Talks, events, interviews, press or research enquiries. He is Official Chronicler of Miranda municipality and unpaid director of the Siembra 89.1 FM community station.
paramerias.com is a static site: it has no form, no database and no way of receiving a message at all. That is why what you write goes to his phone or his inbox, and not to us.