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Cerro El Ávila (El Ávila mountain) (Indigenous name: Waraira Repano), is a mountain bordering Caracas. It rises next to Caracas, separating the city from the Caribbean Sea. The area's highest elevation is Pico Naiguatá, at 2,765 metres (9,072 ft) above sea level. It is considered the lungs of Caracas due to the amount of vegetation on the ...
Palacio Municipal de Caracas, in the historic center of Caracas. In 1673, Antonio Gonzáles de Acuña bought a number of buildings in the area around today's Plaza Mayor, adapting them to serve as a seminary. Known as the Colegio Seminario de Santa Rosa de Lima, it was the first seminary of the seventeenth century.
Cultural landmarks, like the University City of Caracas, designed by modernist architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000; [19] the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex were built, as well as the Caracas Metro and a developed downtown area. Urban development was ...
Timeline Building Height Floors City 1674–1875: Caracas Cathedral (Bell Tower): 34.0 m / 42.0 m (Before the earthquake of 1812) 1: Caracas: 1875–1945: National Pantheon of Venezuela
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Most large American cities have numbers between the mid single digits and the low double digits. In 2022, for example, the city of Miami’s homicide rate was 8.6, while Jacksonville stood at 15.3 ...
On this site the new headquarters of the City council, finished in December 1750, was built. [ 3 ] The House of the Cabildo was the location of the protests of 19 April 1810, when canon José Cortés de Madariaga stood on its balconies and signalled the people of Caracas to disavow Captain General Vicente Emparan , in what is known as the first ...
According to an October 2024 American Veterinary Medical Association survey, dog-owning households in the U.S. increased from 31.3 million in 1996 to 59.8 million in 2024.