Caracas (ven)

Caracas

Caracas ranks 154th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sparta, Ghent, and Hammersmith. Memorable people born in Caracas include Simón Bolívar, Nicolás Maduro, and Francisco de Miranda. Memorable people who died in Caracas include Hugo Chávez, Juan Pujol García, and Rafael Caldera. Caracas has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many politicians and religious figures. Caracas is located in Venezuela.

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. Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range. The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep 2,200-meter-high (7,200 ft) mountain range, Cerro El Ávila; to the south there are more hills and mountains. The Metropolitan Region of Caracas has an estimated population of almost 5 million inhabitants. Read more on Wikipedia