34 Facts About Caracas

Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range .

The Metropolitan Region of Caracas has an estimated population of almost 5 million inhabitants.

Caracas has a largely service-based economy, apart from some industrial activity in its metropolitan area.

Caracas is Venezuela's cultural capital, with many restaurants, theaters, museums, and shopping centers.

The eventual settlers of Caracas came from Coro, the German capital of their Klein-Venedig colony around the present-day coastal Colombia–Venezuela border; from the 1540s, the colony had been de facto controlled by Spaniards.

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The town was the closest to the coast of these new settlements, and the colonists retained a native workforce, which allowed a trade network to develop between Caracas, the interior, and Margarita; the towns further inland produced ample cotton products and beeswax, and Margarita was a rich source of pearls.

The Caracas valley had a good environment for both agricultural and arable farming, which contributed to the system of commerce but meant that the town's population was initially sparse, as it was only large enough to support a few farms.

In 1577, Caracas became the capital of the Spanish Empire's Venezuela Province under the province's new governor, Juan de Pimentel .

In 1728, the Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas was founded by the king, and the cacao business grew in importance.

Caracas was made one of the three provinces of Nueva Granada, corresponding to Venezuela, in 1739.

Caracas then came under worse luck: in 1812, an earthquake destroyed Caracas, a quarter of its population migrated in 1814, and the Venezuelan War of Independence continued until 24 June 1821, when Simon Bolivar defeated royalists in the Battle of Carabobo.

Caracas grew in size, population, and economic importance during Venezuela's oil boom in the early 20th century.

Caracas served as the representative of Venezuela to the Spanish Crown, and vice versa.

Anthem of the city is the Marcha a Caracas, written by the composer Tiero Pezzuti de Matteis with the lyrics by Jose Enrique Sarabia and approved in 1984.

Caracas is contained entirely within a valley of the Venezuelan Central Range, and is separated from the Caribbean coast by a roughly 15-kilometer expanse of El Avila National Park.

Main body of water in Caracas is the Guaire River, which flows across the city and empties into the Tuy River, which is fed by the El Valle and San Pedro rivers, in addition to numerous streams which descend from El Avila.

Geologically, Caracas was formed in the Late Cretaceous period, with much of the rest of the Caribbean, and sits on what is mostly metamorphic rock.

Hydrographic network of the city of Caracas is made up of the Guaire river basin which is a sub-basin of the Tuy river.

Caracas has exceeded the administrative limits of its perimeter due to accelerated population growth, so that its most suitable demographic study territory is the Metropolitan District or AMC.

From 1936 to 1990, Caracas multiplied its population, although far less than any other major city in the country, such as Valencia, which in the same period of time multiplied its population almost 25 times.

New developments in Caracas were populated mainly by these European immigrants, such as La Florida and Altamira.

Venezuela and its capital, Caracas, are reported to both have among the highest per capita murder rates in the world.

Businesses that are located in Caracas include service companies, banks, and malls, among others.

Important industries in Caracas include chemicals, textiles, leather, food, iron, and wood products.

The Metropolitan District of Caracas was suppressed on 20 December 2017 by the Constituent National Assembly of Venezuela.

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City of Caracas occupies the entirety of the Libertador municipality of the Capital District and part of the state of Miranda, specifically the municipalities of Baruta, Chacao, El Hatillo and Sucre, which until 2011 formed the Metropolitan District of Caracas, which enjoyed legal personality and autonomy within the limits of the Constitution and the law.

The Metropolitan District of Caracas was organized in a system of municipal government at two levels: the metropolitan or district and the municipalities.

Caracas is Venezuela's cultural capital, with many restaurants, theaters, museums, and shopping centers.

Caracas is the seat of the National Institute of Sports and of the Venezuelan Olympic Committee.

Traffic in the Caracas Region is very congested, since it is the city with the largest number of cars in the country, causing traffic jams at any time in the city and being over-saturated at peak hours, where Caracas residents last up to 3 hours to get out of congestion.

BusCaracas is a mass transit system that connects some areas of the Libertador municipality of Caracas.

Also known as Line 7 of the Caracas subway has 11 stations with two connections to the subway system at La Hoyada and La bandera, lines 1 and 3 respectively.

Network begins its journey at the Libertador Simon Bolivar station in Caracas, located in La Rinconada and connected to line 3 of the Caracas metro.

Caracas is part of the Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities from 12 October 1982.