Carvajal arrived with
Ambrosius Ehinger's expedition for
Santa Ana de Coro known to the
Welser Family, who had been granted the colony of
Klein-Venedig from
Charles V as a payment for debts, as Neu-Augsburg in 1529. He became the
Attorney General of the entire
province of Venezuela and he also served as a
public notary in
Maracaibo and Santa Ana del Coro. Carvajal believed the Welser family to not be completing their part of the
treaty granting them Venezuela, noting the poor living conditions and the neglectful administration of Klein-Venedig. Thus, being the attorney general of the province of Venezuela, he sued them in a trial of residence that he opened against
George Von Speyer. The case concluded in 1540 due to Speyer's death.
Governorship Carvajal left for
Santo Domingo to serve as the
Rapporteur of the Real Audiencia of Santo Domingo in 1540 after the trial's conclusion, a position he held until December 1543. He then left for Coro to govern with the interim governor of the province of Venezuela
Juan de Frias, in
Phillip von Hutten's absence, who was believed to have died in his expedition to find
El Dorado which started on 1 August 1541 with
Bartholomeus VI. Welser. A year later, when Juan de Frias left for the
Island of Margarita, Carvajal assumed the complete position of Interim Governor. He appointed
Juan de Villegas as his Lieutenant General.
Founding of Tocuyo Carvajal founded the city of
El Tocuyo on December 7, 1545, originally named Nuestra Señora de la Pura y Limpia Concepción del Tocuyo. This city served as the new capital for the colonists with many of the inhabitants of Coro moving to Tocuyo.
Capture and execution of Hutten Hutten and his party reach Neu-Augsburg (Coro) in April 1546 where they found the colony under Carvajal's administration. Carvajal was unwilling to give up control of the colony and a fight ensued, leaving Carvajal seriously injured. The Germans fled to the
port of Coro where they are intercepted and incarcerated. He kept them in chains for a while and eventually ordered their
execution through
decapitation on
Good Friday, 17 May. ==Repercussion for his crimes==