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Diego de Losada by Antonio Herrera Toro. Before the city was founded in 1567, [10] the valley of Caracas was populated by indigenous peoples. Francisco Fajardo, the son of a Spanish captain and a Guaiqueri cacica, who came from Margarita, began establishing settlements in the area of La Guaira and the Caracas valley between 1555 and 1560.
Venezuela is a presidential republic consisting of 23 states, the Capital District and federal dependencies covering Venezuela's offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; [ 22 ] [ 23 ] the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the north and in the capital.
Map of Venezuela Caracas, Capital of Venezuela Maracaibo Valencia Barquisimeto San Cristóbal Ciudad Guayana Puerto la Cruz Pampatar Guarenas Porlamar. This is a list of cities, towns and communities in Venezuela. The state capitals are marked with a *.
Plaza Venezuela is the geographic center of Caracas. It is a large urban plaza at the entrance of the Central University of Venezuela. Kinetic artists have displayed their works there, including Carlos Cruz-Diez, Alejandro Otero and Jesus Soto. East of the Plaza is the Plaza Venezuela Fountain, a large computerized display of water, music and ...
The Capital District (Spanish: Distrito Capital) is a federal district of Venezuela.It has an area of 433 km 2 (167 sq mi) and there is only one administrative division (municipio), Libertador, which contains about half of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital city, which is also the seat of the three branches of the federal government of Venezuela.
In the 1970s, it formed, together with the states of Carabobo and Aragua, the so-called North-Central Coastal Region. In the following decade, after a legal reform, those states were separated to form the Central Region and thus the Capital Region was formed given the geographical location of the city of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.
La Guaira (Spanish: [la ˈɣwajɾa] ⓘ) is the capital city of the Venezuelan state of the same name (formerly named Vargas) and the country's main port, founded in 1577 as an outlet for nearby Caracas. The city hosts its own professional baseball team in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, the Tiburones de La Guaira. They have won ...
Valencia (Spanish pronunciation:) is the capital city of Carabobo State and the third-largest city in Venezuela. The city is an economic hub that contains Venezuela's top industries and manufacturing companies. It is also the largest city in the Valencia-Maracay metropolitan region, which with a population of about 4.5 million is the country's ...