🇻🇪 Venezuela · capital
Caracas
Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas. It is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of Venezuela, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range. The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the shore by a steep 2,200-meter-high (7,200-foot) mountain range, Cerro El Ávila. To the south there are more hills and mountains that form the valley. The Metropolitan Region of Caracas has an estimated population of over 5 million inhabitants.
- Country
- 🇻🇪 Venezuela
- Elevation
- 0 m
- Population
- 3,000,000
- Time zone
- America/Caracas
- Coordinates
- 10.49, -66.88
How far Caracas is from other cities in Venezuela
- Valencia128 km✈ 54 min · 🚗 2 h 8 min
- Barquisimeto275 km✈ 1 h 5 min · 🚗 4 h 35 min
- Maracaibo518 km✈ 1 h 23 min · 🚗 8 h 38 min
- Ciudad Guayana522 km✈ 1 h 23 min · 🚗 8 h 42 min
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