FEDERAL
DISTRICT
Geopolitical
division
The County of Caracas was part, in 1777,
of the General Captaincy of Venezuela.
In 1909
is dissolved and it is only the
Federal District. Santiago from León
from Caracas is the capital of the one Federal
district and constitutionally, of the
Republic of Venezuela. In 1998 part of
its
territory passes to form the state
Vargas. At the moment it is divided in
eighteen parishes.
MAP VIAL
It possesses an important net of
freeways. Also, it has three lines of
the system of
transport underground Meter of Caracas
from the station Chacaíto to the
station
Propatria, and from the station Plaza
Venezuela until The Valley. Besides the
one that goes from The
I silence until The Enclosed-zoological
one.
Basic DATA
Capital
Caracas.
Location
Central region.
Limits
North: Vargas.
South: Miranda and Aragua.
This: Miranda and Vargas.
West: Aragua and Vargas.
Surface
263 km2.
Percentage of the national territory
It is the entity with smaller surface of
the country.
TOURISM
As cultural centers has to the
Athenaeum of Caracas, the Cultural
Complex Teresa Carreño, the one
Museum of Contemporary Art Sofía Imber,
the Gallery of National Art, the Museum
of Sciences
Natural, the Museum of fine arts, the
Museum of the Children, the Audiovisual
Museum, the Museum
Foundation John Boulton, the National
Library and the Fifth Anauco. In their
colonial helmet you
it erects the Liberator's Native House,
the Cathedral of Caracas and very close
the Capitol in whose
Elliptic living room stays the Book of
Records of the Congress of 1811 and the
Key of Gold that opens the
urn of Simón Bolívar in the National
Vault. In the Av. Urdaneta is the Palace
of
Miraflores, the president's of the
Republic office. Among the churches they
highlight the Basilica
Sacred Teresa, the church of Altagracia,
that of San Francisco and the Santa
Chapel. As for
parks highlight: The Calvary, The
Caobos, The Jets, the National Park The
Ávila, the Garden
Botanical and the Walk The Eminent
persons, a square combination and park.
It has two
zoological: the Pinegrove and that of
Caricuao. Besides The Observatorio
Cajigal, The Polyhedron of
Caracas, the Race track The Corner and
the Boulevard of Big Savanna.
Geography
Geology
Anticlinales exists, sinclinales,
numerous flaws and diaclasas that show
the intense activity
tectonic of the area. explains to
it the mostly uneven relief, with
pending discharges,
irregular, sharp and deep crests fit,
besides straits and short valleys
intramontanos.
Relief
It is framed in the landscape unit
corresponding to the Mountainous System
of the Costa. Toward
the south rises the Serranía of the
Coast where the cliffs are plentiful.
They are the picks
Agustín Codazzi (2 425 m.s.n.m), and
Naiguatá (2 765 m.s.n.m), of tectonic
origin that reaches
about 13 kms long, with a soft west
decline to this; in him the city has
been summoned of
Caracas. Skirting to this city in their
south limit is a succession of
formations
orográficas that conform a complex
landscape of mountains and hills.
Climate
The annual half temperature is
located entre18° and 26° Celsius. The
annual half precipitation is
superior to the 900 mm. Presents a
savanna climate (Aw), characterized by
the presence of a
dry rainy and other period.
Hydrography
The waters escurrentes arrives to the
basin of the river Guaire, current that
crosses the area
metropolitan of Caracas of west to this.
There the gulches flow: Caroata, Sling,
Maripérez, Catuche and other four
hundred of smaller importance. These
sources of water are
used as urban drainage of served waters.
The resource hídrico used for the one
supply of the Federal District comes
from other entities, especially of the
state
Miranda.
Vegetation
To smaller altitude, where the
humidity is restricted, heaths are
developed, espinares,
forests semi-deciduos and stains of
savannas. In the highest areas forests
are presented
always green. Among the vegetable
species they highlight: olive tree,
araguaney, mahogany, ceiba, cují and
jobo.
Mineral resources
It has non metallic minerals as
quartz, marble, sand, limestone, granzón
and clay.
Population
Due to factors of diverse nature, the
city of Caracas has become the center
dominant of the political,
administrative, economic, financial
activities, of services
assistance and educational of the
country. This condition has favored the
migratory process
toward the entity, until the point of
reaching a population of 1 823222 hab,
reason why squatter
the second place with regard to the
national total, with hardly 0,22% of the
Venezuelan territory.
The city of Caracas conforms the biggest
urban concentration in the country.
Being located the adult
inhabitants' percentage in the parishes
Sucre (19,42%), The Valley (11,74%) and
The Vega
(8,76%).
NATIONAL PARKS
It possesses two national parks: The Ávila,
in the middle of heart of Caracas, in
the mountainous tract of the
Mountain range of the Costa. And
Macarao, in the central area of the
Mountain range of the Costa, the one
which
it is shared with the state Miranda.
Economic ACTIVITY
It constitutes the main center of
specialized services of the country in
the financial, commercial and
communications. The agricultural
activity concentrates on some
mountainous areas (parishes
of Carayaca and Caruao), where it is
cultivated: banana, avocado, coffee,
orange, mango, cambur,
caraotas, celery, ocumo and yucca.
TRADITIONS
The meringue, as gender of dancing
songs, charges popularity in Caracas
during those
twenties. To the meringue traditional
inhabitant of Caracas was known as
meringue rucaneao. The
it orchestrates it was composed by four
instruments soloists: trumpet, trombone,
saxo and
clarinet, and I eat accompanying
instruments: four, I lower and
percussion. Groups existed of
silence that they were known as
gunboats, and their members were
identified, among others
sew, for the constant use of knot tie,
shoes of two tones and pajilla hat.
In general the letters of the meringue
from Caracas sang to the love, to the
woman, to the
day-to-dayness and to the big events
happened in the country. Although in
Caracas it was
where obtained bigger
receptividad, also extended to
Lara and Cumaná.