Caracas (ven)

Caracas

Caracas ranks 145th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Odessa, Indianapolis, and British Hong Kong. Memorable people born in Caracas include Simón Bolívar, Nicolás Maduro, and Baruj Benacerraf. Memorable people who died in Caracas include José Gil Fortoul, Rafael Caldera, and Raimundo Andueza Palacio. Caracas has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and writers. 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-foot) 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