The Capital

Venezuela's capital and largest city, when the conquistador Diego de Losada founded Caracas on July 25, 1567, he had found an ideal place: a new place for a small settlement in a protected narrow valley with cooling breezes, and warm sunny days, never too hot - all year. Today, Caracas is a modern city with a new and growing infrastructure, some very spectacular. A dazzling and brilliant city.

Caracas is listed as the high capital of South America, a city made by with love. With the exception of the old streets of La Pastora and the Plaza Bolivar, most of the old colonial houses are still there. Caracas was an important capital of the Spanish Viceroy and producer of cocoa globally before the oil boom. Caraquenos are proud of there city, and its oil wealth gives them enough money to continue the philosophy of building new rather than repair or restore. The Colonial Caracas is hard to imagine looking at the Caracas today. Caracas the nightlife of South America, and with the best climate in the world ....