KnowraCaracasCaracasCaracas is Venezuela’s capital and largest city, set in a valley of the Venezuelan Coastal Range near the Caribbean Sea.BriefConnectVenezuelan Coastal Range: A mountain system in northern Venezuela separating the Caribbean coast from the interior. Caracas occupies a valley within this range, whose ridges shape the city’s limits and climate.Diego de Losada: A Spanish conquistador who founded Santiago de León de Caracas in 1567. His colonial settlement established the city at its present location.Miraflores Palace: The official workplace and residence of Venezuela’s president in Caracas. It anchors the executive government in the capital.Maracaibo: Venezuela’s second-largest city, on the western shore of Lake Maracaibo. It is a major regional metropolis, unlike Caracas’s role as the national capital.Guaire River: A river that flows through the Caracas valley and joins the Tuy River. Its course runs through the urban valley and has long been altered by development.Spanish colonization of the Americas: Spain’s conquest, settlement, and rule across much of the Americas from the late fifteenth century onward. Caracas began as a Spanish colonial town within this imperial expansion.National Pantheon of Venezuela: A Caracas mausoleum housing the remains of prominent Venezuelan historical figures, including Simón Bolívar. It turns the capital’s national history into a public civic monument.Valencia, Venezuela: A major industrial city in north-central Venezuela and the capital of Carabobo state. Its industrial prominence contrasts with Caracas’s concentration of national government.Libertador Municipality: The largest and most populous municipality in Venezuela’s Capital District. Central Caracas and many nationally significant institutions lie within its boundaries.Caracas Province: A Spanish colonial province in northern Venezuela, later part of the independent republic. The city served as the province’s principal settlement and administrative center.Show all 24Linked from 8 pagesAndrés BelloBroader topic: Bello was born and educated in Caracas, where his early intellectual career began.Marcos Pérez JiménezRelated: Major infrastructure projects under his government transformed the capital's urban landscape.Viceroyalty of New GranadaBroader topic: It became the center of a separate captaincy general within the region.Francisco de MirandaRelated: Miranda was born in Caracas, then part of Spain’s American empire.MaracayRelated: Its proximity connects Maracay to the country’s political and economic center.Show all 8