The Experimental National University of the Western Plains "Ezequiel Zamora" is an institution of higher education consisting mainly of a community of spiritual interests that brings together teachers and students in the pursuit of truth and the strengthening of the transcendent values ​​of man, oriented to carry out the leading role of education, culture and science through activities of teaching, \ On Avenida January 23 in front of the phial cool spot, the headquarters of the house of studies of the western plains, which was announced in the year 1974 and it was in October 1975 that works by Decree No. 1178 , named Dr. Felipe Gomez Alvarez rector of the new university, the Rural University "Ezequiel Zamora" with nuclei in the states of Apure, Barinas, Cojedes and Portuguesa, and by December of that year was called as we know it today, Experimental National University of the Western Plains "Ezequiel Zamora" (UNELLEZ), which is public, and founded with the aim of training high quality professionals. In addition to the completion of the director of education, culture and science function by fulfilling activities of teaching, research and extension. The April 11, 1977 start college in the program complementing the Vice President for Planning and Social Development the first 500 regular students of the National Experimental University of the Western Plains "Ezequiel Zamora".