Central
Distrito Federal
Libertador Municipality

Caracas

Caracas is the capital and largest city of , in northern Venezuela, near the . Venezuela’s urban spirit can be discovered mainly from understanding Caracas, its capital city, a busy metropolis famous for its food, cultural diversity, and perfect climate, thanks to the unique combination of a high elevation and proximity to the Caribbean Sea.
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  • Type: City with 3,520,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Venezuela
  • Also known as: “Carracas”, “CCS”, “Santiago de Leon de Caracas”, and “Santiago de León de Caracas”
Photo: Wilfredor, CC0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Miraflores Palace and National Library of Venezuela.

Government office
The is the official dispatch and head office of the president of Venezuela. It is located on Urdaneta Avenue, Libertador Bolivarian Municipality in Caracas.

Library
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
The Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela, located in Caracas, is the legal deposit and copyright for . It was established on July 13, 1833, by decree of General José Antonio Páez.

Museum
Photo: Wilfredor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The of Venezuela is a final resting place for national heroes. The Pantheon was created in the 1870s on the site of the ruined Santísima Trinidad church from 1744 on the northern edge of the old town of Caracas, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 23 de Enero and Urbanizacion Francisco de Miranda.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a parish located in the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality west of the city of Caracas, . The parish receives its name from the date of the 1958 Venezuelan coup d'état which overthrew dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez.

Neighborhood
Photo: Jose Rafael Camejo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighborhood.

Caracas

Latitude
10.5061° or 10° 30′ 22″ north
Longitude
-66.9146° or 66° 54′ 53″ west
Population
3,520,000
Elevation
887 metres (2,910 feet)
Inception
July 25th, 1567
Abbreviation
“CCS”
IATA airport code
CCS
United Nations Location Code
VE CCS
Open location code
772MG34P+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 914310439
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3646738
Wiki­data ID
Q1533
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Caracas” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Каракас”
  • Afrikaans: “Caracas”
  • Albanian: “Karakas”
  • Amharic: “ካራካስ”
  • Arabic: “كاراكاس”
  • Arabic: “كراكاس”
  • Aragonese: “Caracas”
  • Armenian: “Կարակաս”
  • Asturian: “Caraques”
  • Aymara: “Caracas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karakas”
  • Balinese: “Caracas”
  • Bashkir: “Каракас”
  • Bashkir: “Кара́кас”
  • Basque: “Caracas”
  • Belarusian: “Каракас”
  • Bengali: “কারাকাস”
  • Bhojpuri: “काराकस”
  • Bislama: “Caracas”
  • Bosnian: “Caracas”
  • Breton: “Caracas”
  • Bulgarian: “Каракас”
  • Burmese: “ကရာကက်စ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Caracas”
  • Cebuano: “Caracas”
  • Central Bikol: “Caracas”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاراکاس”
  • Chavacano: “Ciudad de Caracas”
  • Chechen: “Каракас”
  • Cheyenne: “Caracas”
  • Chinese: “Caracas”
  • Chinese: “加拉加斯”
  • Chinese: “卡拉卡斯”
  • Chuvash: “Каракас”
  • Corsican: “Caracas”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Karakas”
  • Croatian: “Caracas”
  • Czech: “Caracas”
  • Danish: “Caracas”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Karakas”
  • Dutch: “Caracas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاراكاس”
  • Esperanto: “Karakaso”
  • Esperanto: “Karako”
  • Esperanto: “Santiago de Leono de Karakaso”
  • Estonian: “Caracas”
  • Extremaduran: “Caracas”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Caracas”
  • Fijian: “Caracas”
  • Finnish: “Caracas”
  • French: “Caracas”
  • Galician: “Caracas”
  • Georgian: “კარაკასი”
  • German: “Caracas”
  • German: “Santiago de León de Caracas”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰𐍃”
  • Greek: “Καράκας”
  • Guarani: “Caracas”
  • Guarani: “Karáka”
  • Gujarati: “કરાકસ”
  • Gujarati: “કારાકાસ”
  • Gujarati: “કેર્કસ”
  • Haitian: “Karakas”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Caracas”
  • Hausa: “Karakas”
  • Hebrew: “קראקס”
  • Hindi: “कराकस”
  • Hindi: “कराकास”
  • Hindi: “काराकास”
  • Hungarian: “Caracas”
  • Icelandic: “Karakas”
  • Ido: “Caracas”
  • Iloko: “Caracas”
  • Indonesian: “Caracas”
  • Interlingua: “Caracas”
  • Interlingue: “Caracas”
  • Irish: “Caracas”
  • Italian: “Caracas”
  • Japanese: “カラカス”
  • Javanese: “Caracas”
  • Kabyle: “Caracas”
  • Kalaallisut: “Caracas”
  • Kannada: “ಕರಾಕಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರಕಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Karakas”
  • Kashmiri: “کاراکاس”
  • Kazakh: “Каракас”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Caracas”
  • Kirghiz: “Каракас”
  • Korean: “카라카스”
  • Kotava: “Caracas”
  • Kurdish: “Caracas”
  • Kurdish: “Karakas”
  • Ladino: “Caracas”
  • Ladino: “Karakas”
  • Lao: “ກາຣາກັສ”
  • Latin: “Caracae”
  • Latvian: “Karakasa”
  • Latvian: “Santjago de Leona de Karakasa”
  • Ligurian: “Caracas”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Caracas”
  • Lithuanian: “Karakasas”
  • Livvi: “Karakas”
  • Lombard: “Caracas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Caracas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Caracas”
  • Macedonian: “Каракас”
  • Malagasy: “Caracas”
  • Malay: “Caracas”
  • Malayalam: “കാരക്കാസ്”
  • Maltese: “Caracas”
  • Marathi: “काराकास”
  • Marathi: “केरकस”
  • Mazanderani: “کاراکاس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Caracas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Caracas”
  • Minangkabau: “Caracas”
  • Mingrelian: “კარაკასი”
  • Mirandese: “Caracas”
  • Moksha: “Каракас”
  • Mongolian: “Каракас”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كاراكاس”
  • Nauru: “Caracas”
  • Nepali: “कराकस”
  • Nepali: “काराकस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Caracas”
  • Northern Luri: “کاراکاس”
  • Northern Sami: “Caracas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Caracas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Caracas”
  • Norwegian: “Caracas”
  • Novial: “Karakas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Caracas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Caræca”
  • Oriya: “କାରାକାସ”
  • Ossetian: “Каракас”
  • Pangasinan: “Caracas”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਾਕਾਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Caracas”
  • Persian: “کاراکاس”
  • Picard: “Caracas”
  • Piemontese: “Caracas”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Caracas”
  • Polish: “Caracas”
  • Portuguese: “Caracas”
  • Portuguese: “CCS”
  • Portuguese: “Santiago de León de Caracas”
  • Pushto: “کاراکاس”
  • Quechua: “Caracas”
  • Quechua: “Karakas”
  • Romanian: “Caracas”
  • Romansh: “Caracas”
  • Rundi: “Caracas”
  • Russian: “Каракас”
  • Russian: “Сантьяго-де-Леон-де-Каракас”
  • Sango: “Caracas”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱨᱟᱠᱟᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Caracas”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Caracas”
  • Scots: “Caracas”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Caracas”
  • Serbian: “Каракас”
  • Serbian: “Сантијаго де Леон де Каракас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Caracas”
  • Shona: “Caracas”
  • Sicilian: “Caracas”
  • Silesian: “Caracas”
  • Sindhi: “ڪاراڪاس”
  • Sinhala: “කැරකස්”
  • Slovak: “Caracas”
  • Slovenian: “Caracas”
  • Slovenian: “Santiago de León de Caracas”
  • Spanish: “Caracas”
  • Spanish: “CCS”
  • Spanish: “Santiago de León de Caracas”
  • Spanish: “Valle de Los Caracas”
  • Swahili: “Caracas”
  • Swedish: “Caracas”
  • Swiss German: “Caracas”
  • Tagalog: “Caracas”
  • Tahitian: “Caracas”
  • Tajik: “Каракас”
  • Talysh: “Karakas”
  • Tamil: “கரகஸ்”
  • Tamil: “கராகஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Каракас”
  • Telugu: “కరాకస్”
  • Tetum: “Karakas”
  • Thai: “การากัส”
  • Tibetan: “ཁ་ར་ཁ་སི”
  • Tigrinya: “ሳንትያጎ ደ ለዮን ደ ካራካስ”
  • Tigrinya: “ካራካስ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Karakas”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Caracas”
  • Turkish: “Caracas”
  • Turkish: “Karakas”
  • Turkmen: “Karakas”
  • Tyap: “Ka̱rakat”
  • Tyap: “Santiago de Leon de Caracas”
  • Udmurt: “Каракас”
  • Uighur: “Karakas”
  • Ukrainian: “Каракас”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Caracas”
  • Urdu: “کاراکاس”
  • Urdu: “کراکس”
  • Uzbek: “Karakas”
  • Venetian: “Caracas”
  • Veps: “Karakas”
  • Vietnamese: “Caracas”
  • Vlaams: “Caracas”
  • Vlax Romani: “Caracas”
  • Volapük: “Caracas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Caracas”
  • Wayuu: “Karaaka”
  • Welsh: “Caracas”
  • Western Armenian: “Քարաքաս”
  • Western Frisian: “Caracas”
  • Western Frisian: “Karakas”
  • Western Panjabi: “کراکس”
  • Wolof: “Caracas”
  • Wu Chinese: “加拉加斯”
  • Yiddish: “קאראקאס”
  • Yoruba: “Caracas”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡拉卡斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Caracas”
  • Zhuang: “Caracas”
  • Zulu: “i-Caracas”
  • “Caracas”
  • “काराकस”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Caracas”. Photo: Gabriela Camaton, CC BY 2.0.