Caracas

Santiago de León de Caracas, traditionally known as Caracas, is the capital city of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as well as the main administrative, financial, political, commercial and cultural center of the nation. It is located in the central-northern coastal area of ​​the country, about 15 km from the coast of the Caribbean Sea and is located within a mountainous valley at an average altitude of 900 meters above sea level. Cerro El Ávila National Park is its largest vegetable lung and is the geographical feature that separates the city from the central coast, with which it connects through the Caracas-La Guaira highway, which leads to the state of Vargas and the main international airport and the second largest port in the country on the shores of the Caribbean Sea.