Coat of Arms of Barquisimeto: It was instituted to celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city.

It was chosen through a contest opened by the Municipal Council, in which the winner was the prototype presented by the artist José Requena.

It has a blue field on its upper right, and on it, the effigy of the founder of the city Juan de Villegas, supported by two rampant lions.

The golden beam of the middle symbolizes the trade and the cogwheel within this symbolizes industry, cardinal elements of urban development.

In the upper left quarter, also blue, there is a sisal tree, which abounds in the barquisimetana plateau.

In the horizontal half of the shield, an arc with the national tricolor gives way to the solar rays that bathe the lower quarters where they are in turn the arms of the city represented by pavilions, halberds, a brilliant sword and a sheath full of Arrows, in contrast, the arts and spiritual wealth of the barquisimetanos are symbolized by means of a lyre, a palette, a pentagram, a compass and a laurel wreath.

The whole perimeter of the shield is wrapped by a baroque arabesque and crowned at the top, a fortress in which a ribbon is held with the word "justice" and on it two heads of goat coming out of a ring.