According to the investigator and Chronicler of San Carlos' City - capital of the State- Jose' Antonio Borjas; the Professor Adolfo Salazar Quijada and other historians, the name of the Cojedes State that was attributed to the river of the same name, has Caribbean origin and it comes from two words: "COA" that means "people", "nation" and "HERI" which is equal to say "cooked pots", from which one can deduce that Cojedes, in the natives' tongue of the Caribbean family, means "ceramic people". Probably, this name remembers a human group that inhabited the region and that manufactured pots or ceramic recipients. From the original name "Coaheri", was derived the names "Coxedes", "Cogede", until becoming the current name "Cojedes".

The Cojedenian Coat of Arms consists in a simple circular field with border of Gules (red) filleted in Or (yellow) that shows the war voice "AD SUM" (I'm Present) to the Chief inscribed in capital Roman letters in Or, charging on a field of Azure (blue) an emblematic set integrated by a vegetal terrace in its color where is emphasize a river in Argent disposed in counter-bend; a tree in its color on the honor point and a raised bull of Sable (black) with the horns and hooves in Or (gold) in the pretension point, all accompanied on the Chief by two herons in Argent (white) to the dexter and the constellation of Orion in Or (yellow) to the sinister.

The voice military symbolizes the attitude of the Cojedenians in front of the history: ready and sign to spill their blood as yesterday to defend the causes of Justice and Freedom. The sun symbolizes the victory that bathes the arms of the heroes of the Venezuelan Independence, represented in the lances and bayoneted rifles.

The field enameled in Azur symbolizes the High Ideals, the Elevation of Sights, Loyalty and the Perseverance, whereas the border enameled in Gules and outlined in Or alludes to the Joy, the Audacity, the Constance, the Courage, the Generosity, the Intrepidity, the Nobility, the Valor and the Sacrifice. The terrace and the tree in their color symbolize the Abundance and the Hope; on the one hand and by the other, reminds the predominant landscape in the region. The river, in Argent for indicate the Clarity and the Integrity, constitutes something like an artery around which circulates the impelling force of the commerce that gives life to the state.

The bull that dominates with its glance the immensity of the savannah, alludes to the prosperity of the cattle which constitutes fundamental source of the Cojedenian wealth. The herons reminds the plumage industry of the state. The constellation of Orion, visible on the Venezuelan and Cojedenian sky most part of the year, recalls the preclear names of those heroes of this land which contributed with their courage and blood to forge the destiny of Venezuela.

The crown of laurels reminds the eternal triumph reached by the Cojedenian leaders for the freedom. The ephemeris alludes, respectively, to the date in which was created Cojedes State and the date in which took place its definitive consolidation as federal entity of the Republic, whilst the inscriptions under the blazon reminds the names of the municipalities which integrate it.

As external ornaments, the blazon presents a radiating sun raising from the Chief as crest and as supports two pairs of lances and a pair of rifles with soaked bayonets in its color put behind to the field in saltire and a crown of fruited laurel that surrounds the blazon is laced with a pennant in Gules (red) outlined in Or (yellow) that shows as mottoes the following ephemeris and inscriptions in capital gothic letters of Or: "28 DE MARZO DE 1864" (March 28th,1864) to the dexter; "4 DE AGOSTO DE 1909" (August 4th,1909) to the sinister and under the base: "ANZOÁTEGUI", "TINACO", "PAO", "SAN CARLOS", "FALCÓN", "GIRARDOT", and "RICAURTE".