El Cafetal is a neighborhood located in the
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 (w ...
of
Caracas
Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...
,
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 ...
.
History
It is an urbanization developed in the second half of the 20th century in what was once a coffee plantation (from which it took its name) in the east of the capital of Venezuela.
Indeed, in the 1950s, in the confines of the old town of
Petare
Dulce Nombre de Jesús de Petare is a neighborhood in Miranda (state), Miranda, Venezuela, and is part of the Metropolitan District of Caracas. It is located in the Sucre Municipality, Miranda, Sucre Municipality, one of the five divisions of ...
, the urbanization "El Marqués" was promoted, promoted by René Bruno Borges Villegas and designed by the engineer Luis Borges de Villegas Mejías. To the south of Guaire emerged the urbanizations "Las Mercedes" (1940) developed by Venezolana de Inversiones CA. (VICA) and "Los Rosales" (1941-1948) projected by Juan Bernardo Arismendi. Between Las Mercedes and El Marques there was a territory dedicated to coffee plantations, which was frequently flooded by the broken places of the
Guaire River and consequently it was partly marshy: El Cafetal.
The urbanization of the territory in which the parish is located today and the urbanization was initiated in the 1970s, after the urbanization of the territories of
Las Mercedes, the construction of
Prados del Este Highway and the beginning of the construction project of the
Simón Bolívar University.
The land initially belonged to
Eugenio Mendoza
Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa (Caracas, November 13, 1906, Caracas, October 17, 1979) was a Venezuelan business tycoon who made important contributions in the modernization of the country during the 20th Century.
Early life
He was the son of Eugenio M ...
and Armando Planchart, who as private investors promoted the creation of the '' Avenida Principal de El Cafetal '' (on the homonymous ravine) along with the entrepreneurs who developed Las Mercedes.
El Cafetal has one of the best shopping centers in eastern Caracas: the ''Plaza Las Americas'' which has been renovated twice. And also the El Cafetal shopping center. Currently it is mainly residential area of the upper-middle class.
[Carballo Perichi, C. (1991), ''Los últimos días de aquella de los techos rojos, o los ‘planes’ antes del ‘plan’''; en AAVV. "El Plan Rotival. La Caracas que no fue 1939-1989. Un plan urbano para Caracas". Caracas: UCV, Instituto de Urbanismo]
References
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Neighbourhoods of Caracas