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Website. https://www.gdc.gob.ve. 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 ...
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O Distrito Capital (antigamente chamado Distrito Federal) é...
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Capital Region, Venezuela. The Capital Region is one of the...
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Before the city was founded in 1567, 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. Fajardo attempted to establish a plantation in the vall...
The coat of arms was adopted in 1591. Simón de Bolívar, an ancestor of Venezuelan liberator Simón Bolívar, had been named the first procurator general of the Venezuelan province in 1589. He served as the representative of Venezuela to the Spanish Crown, and vice versa. In 1591, de Bolívar introduced a petition to King Philip II for a coat of arms, ...
Caracas is contained entirely within a valley of the Venezuelan Central Range, and is separated from the Caribbean coast by a roughly 15-kilometer (9 mi) expanse of El Ávila National Park. The valley is relatively small and quite irregular, and the altitude varies from between 870 and 1,043 meters (2,854 and 3,422 ft) above sea level; the historic ...
Caracas shares commonalities with many Latin Americancities: densely populated and with limited space because it is surrounded by mountains. Because of this, the city has grown vertically. A very striking aspect is the number of people living in substandard housing built on the mountain slopes surrounding the city. This type of housing is called ra...
According to the population census of 2011 the Caracas proper (Distrito Capital) is over 1.9 million inhabitants, while that of the Metropolitan District of Caracas is estimated at 2.9 million as of 2011[update]. The majority of the population is mixed-race, typically with varying degrees of European, Indigenous, African and occasional Asian ancest...
Businesses that are located in Caracas include service companies, banks, and malls, among others. It has a largely service-based economy, apart from some industrial activity in its metropolitan area. The Caracas Stock Exchange and Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) are headquartered here. PDVSA, a state-run organization, is the largest company in Venez...
On 8 March 2000, the year after a new constitution was introduced in Venezuela, it was decreed in Gaceta Official N° 36,906 that the Metropolitan District of Caracas would be created and that some of the powers of the Libertador, Chacao, Baruta, Sucre, and El Hatillo municipalities would be delegated to the Alcaldía Mayor, physically located in the...
Caracas is Venezuela's cultural capital, with many restaurants, theaters, museums, and shoppingcenters. The city is home to many immigrants from Spain, Italy, Portugal, the Middle East, Germany, China, and other Latin American countries.
Central University of Venezuela
The Central University of Venezuela (Universidad Central de Venezuela, UCV) is a public university founded in 1721: it is the oldest university in Venezuela. The university campus was designed by architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Sitein 2000.
Simón Bolívar University
The Simón Bolívar University (Universidad Simón Bolívar, USB) is a public institution in Caracas that focuses on science and technology.
Other universities
1. Bolivarian Military University of Venezuela(Main Campus) 2. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello 3. Universidad Nacional Experimental de la Gran Caracas 4. Universidad Metropolitana 5. Universidad Nacional Experimental de las Artes[es] (UNEARTE) 6. Universidad Monteávila 7. Universidad Nueva Esparta 8. Universidad Santa Maria 9. Universidad Alejandro de Humboldt 10. Universidad Nacional Experimental de las Fuerzas Armadas 11. Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez 12. Universidad B...
The Caracas Metro has been in operation since 27 March 1983. With 4 lines, 47 stations and about 10 more to be constructed. It covers a great part of the city and also has an integrated ticket system that combines the route of the Metro with those offered by the Metrobús, a bus service of the Caracas Metro. In 2010, the first segment of a new aeria...
Véase también. Referencias. Bibliografía. Enlaces externos. Distrito Capital (Venezuela) Apariencia. ocultar. El Distrito Capital a 1 (antiguamente llamado Distrito Federal) a 2 es una entidad federal, que junto a los veintitrés estados y las Dependencias federales, forman la República Bolivariana de Venezuela.
9 de mai. de 2024 · Caracas. An aerial view of Caracas. Caracas, city, capital of Venezuela, and one of the principal cities of South America. It is Venezuela’s largest urban agglomeration and the country’s primary centre of industry, commerce, education, and culture.
O Distrito Capital é uma das 24 entidades federais da Venezuela, tendo um estatuto igual ao dos diferentes estados do país. Em seu território de 433km² está localizada parte da capital da Venezuela, Caracas. A população em 2004 era de 2,073,768. O distrito faz fronteira com os estados de Vargas e Miranda.
