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Francisco Fajardo Highway
The Francisco Fajardo Highway one of the most important freeways of Caracas, connecting the west and east sides of the city. The national freeways and many of the avenues of Caracas are not designated with a system of codification or numbering; instead they are designated with the names of historical personages. The highway is named for the conquistador Francisco Fajardo. Also in Caracas, the connections between freeways are also given peculiar names - ''the octopus, the spider'' and ''the centipede'' are examples. Overview The freeway's respective branches go from Petare and connect with the Grand Marshal Ayacucho Highway (Petare-Guarenas section), and to the southwest of Caracas through the La Paz neighborhood finishing in Las Adjuntas and Macarao. There is also a subbranch to Caricuao. The main branches are the East Highway that starts from the Centipede connection (in the Chacao Municipality) and finishes in the La Trinidad section of Caracas. At La Trinidad, El Hatillo av ...
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El Hatillo Municipality
El Hatillo Municipality () is an administrative division of the Miranda State, State of Miranda, Venezuela; along with Baruta Municipality, Baruta, Chacao Municipality, Chacao, Libertador Municipality (Venezuelan Capital District), Libertador and Sucre Municipality, Miranda, Sucre, it is one of the five municipality, municipalities of Caracas, the Capital (political), capital of Venezuela. It is located in the southeastern area of Caracas, and in the northwestern part of the State of Miranda. The County seat, seat of the municipal government is El Hatillo Town, Miranda, El Hatillo Town, founded in 1784 by Don Baltasar de León, who was instrumental in the area's development. Although the town had its origins during the Spanish colonisation of the Americas, Spanish colonisation, the municipality was not established until 1991. In 2000 – the year after a new Constitution of Venezuela, constitution was enacted in Venezuela – some of the municipality functions were delegated to ...
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Buildings And Structures In Caracas
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building practi ...
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Venezuelan Capital District
The Capital District () is a federal district of Venezuela. It has an area of and there is only one administrative division (''municipio''), Libertador, which contains about half of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital city, which is also the seat of the three branches of the federal government of Venezuela. The population in 2004 was 2,073,768. The district borders the states of Vargas and Miranda. Government Formerly it had its own local government with a governor, but the constitutional reform of 1999 abolished the district government and created instead the Metropolitan District of Caracas, with jurisdiction over the territory of the District and also four adjacent ''municipios'' (Baruta, Chacao, el Hatillo and Sucre) in Miranda which all together form the city. On 13 April 2009, the National Assembly passed a law creating the figure of a head of government for the district which would be designated by the President. On 14 April 2009, Jacqueline Faría became the first H ...
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Libertador Municipality (Venezuelan Capital District)
The Libertador Bolivarian Municipality () is the only administrative division of the Capital District of Venezuela and along with the municipalities of Baruta, Chacao, El Hatillo and Sucre forms the Metropolitan District of Caracas. It is landlocked by Vargas State and also borders Miranda State on the east and south. The municipality is one of a number in Venezuela named " Libertador Municipality", in honour of Venezuelan independence hero Simón Bolívar. Libertador is one of the smallest municipalities in Venezuela, with a total area of . It is the largest in terms of population, with approximately 2.1 million inhabitants. In this municipality is home to the Miraflores presidential palace, the Federal Legislative Palace, the National Electoral Council, the main offices of PDVSA and CANTV, the Central Bank of Venezuela and the public ministry. History It was first established in 1901 under the name of Libertador Department; with the Department of Vargas (now Vargas M ...
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Chacao Municipality, Miranda
Chacao is one of the five political and administrative subdivisions of the city of Caracas, Venezuela. The other four are Baruta, El Hatillo, Libertador and Sucre. This legal entity is known as the Caracas Metropolitan District. Chacao is also one of the 21 municipalities that make up the State of Miranda, Venezuela. Geography Chacao occupies the mid-eastern portion of the Caracas Valley, north of the Guaire River, bordering the other urban municipalities to the east, south and west, and the La Guaira state to the north, including the Avila National Park. Economy Chacao, along with Baruta and Los Salias, is one of the communities with lowest poverty rates in Venezuela, with a poverty rate of only 4.67% according to the 2011 census. It is home to some of the city's major financial and shopping centres, such as Centro Ciudad Comercial Tamanaco (CCCT), Sambil Shopping Mall, Centro Lido, Centro San Ignacio, as well as branches and headquarters of major local banks, and foreign i ...
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Sucre Municipality, Miranda
Sucre Municipality is one of the 21 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Miranda and one of five the municipalities that make up the Metropolitan District of Caracas. According to a 2016 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 691,317. The parish of Petare is the municipal seat of the Sucre Municipality. Name The municipality is one of several in Venezuela named " Sucre Municipality" in honour of Venezuelan independence hero Antonio José de Sucre. Demographics The Sucre Municipality, according to a 2016 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 691,317 (up from 591,414 in 2000). This amounts to 2.2% of the state's population. The municipality's population density (2016) is about 11,000 people per square mile (4,200/km²). Government Mayors Education Colegio Japonés de Caracas (カラカス日本人学校), the sole ...
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Baruta Municipality
Baruta (pop. 317,288) is a municipality within the Metropolitan District of Caracas in Venezuela. Geography Baruta is located geographically in the South-East section of the city. Its western limit is the ''Los Chaguaramos'' neighborhood (which belongs to the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality) and limits to the east with the ''Colinas de Los Ruices'' neighborhood, in the Sucre Municipality, Miranda, Sucre Municipality. To the North, it borders with the Francisco Fajardo Highway and to the Southeast with the El Hatillo Municipality and to the Southwest with the ''Hoyo de la Puerta'' neighborhood (Libertador Municipality). Economy The main economic activity in Baruta is non-manufacturing business in the many office buildings within the Municipality. For example, the Procter & Gamble Latin American Headquarters are located there. Commerce is also a great source of revenue for the ''Baruteños'', as some of the most attractive night spots in the Greater Caracas are located in ...
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Autopista Regional Del Centro
The Autopista Regional del Centro (Central Regional Highway), also known as the Autopista Caracas-Valencia, is a highway which connects the Venezuelan cities of Caracas and Valencia via Maracay. It is the main and most traveled highway in the country and the third longest; its route is part of the Troncal 1 highway which connects Caracas to San Cristóbal. History The first section of the highway, which connected Las Tejerías to Valencia Valencia ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (r ... and spanned , was put into service on 2 December 1957. Part of this section, the La Cabrera Viaduct, was not completed until the following year. In 1964, the Las Tejerías to Cortada de Maturín section of the highway, which includes the 400-meter Los Ocumitos Tunnel, was completed. The fol ...
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Chacao Municipality
Chacao is one of the five political and administrative subdivisions of the city of Caracas, Venezuela. The other four are Baruta, El Hatillo, Libertador and Sucre. This legal entity is known as the Caracas Metropolitan District. Chacao is also one of the 21 municipalities that make up the State of Miranda, Venezuela. Geography Chacao occupies the mid-eastern portion of the Caracas Valley, north of the Guaire River, bordering the other urban municipalities to the east, south and west, and the La Guaira state to the north, including the Avila National Park. Economy Chacao, along with Baruta and Los Salias, is one of the communities with lowest poverty rates in Venezuela, with a poverty rate of only 4.67% according to the 2011 census. It is home to some of the city's major financial and shopping centres, such as Centro Ciudad Comercial Tamanaco (CCCT), Sambil Shopping Mall, Centro Lido, Centro San Ignacio, as well as branches and headquarters of major local banks, and foreign ...
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Tunel El Paraiso
Tunel or Tünel may refer to: * TUNEL assay (Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase mediated dUTP Nick End Labeling assay), in genetics, a method for detecting DNA fragmentation * Tunel (band), Yugoslav rock band * Tunel (railroad station), railroad station in Poland * Tünel, a historical underground funicular in Istanbul, Turkey * Tünel, Khövsgöl, a Mongolian sum * Tunel, a brand of Herbs de Majorca See also * * * Tunnel (other) A tunnel is an underground passage such as: Tunnel or Tunnels may also refer to: Film and TV * ''The Tunnel'' (1915 film), German silent, based on science fiction novel ''Der Tunnel'' by Bernhard Kellermann * ''The Tunnel'' (1933 German-languag ... * Tune (other) {{disambig ...
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Caricuao
Caricuao () is a district of Caracas, Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com .... It is part of Libertador municipality. It is named after a powerful indigenous chief of the Caracas tribe, who fought bravely against the Spaniard Conquistadores; he and Tiuna chief were the first indigenous leaders to set up "armies" on their tribes to organize the battles against their enemies, the Spanish, to which they inflicted great losses as the native indigenous tribes were fighting the Spanish settlement. Caricuao is known as the second vegetal reserve of Caracas. The most important public zoo of the capital, the Parque Zoológico Caricuao, is located there. Since its foundation in 1961 it has had a strong cultural movement especially in the music, the first rocksteady, ...
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