The Jewish Cemetery of Coro is a small, walled burial ground a short walk from the colonial centre, containing graves dating from the early 19th century to the present. It is considered the oldest Jewish cemetery in continuous use in the Americas, predating other contenders in North America and the Caribbean. The cemetery is still actively maintained by the surviving Venezuelan Jewish community.
The headstones bear inscriptions in multiple languages — Hebrew, Ladino, Dutch, and Spanish — tracing the origins of the Sephardic Jewish traders who settled in Coro after migrating from Curaçao. It is an unexpectedly moving site in an out-of-the-way corner of Venezuela, and a reminder of the diversity of colonial-era settlement on the South American mainland.