Magglio Ordóñez

Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . Caracas is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal... mountain range . Terrain suitable for building lies between 760 and 910 m above sea level. The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep 2200 m high mountain range, Cerro Ávila; to the south there are more hills and mountains. El Distrito Metropolitano de Caracas includes the Distrito Capital and four other municipalities in Miranda State: Chacao, Baruta, Sucre, and El Hatillo. The Distrito Capital had a population of 2,097,350 as of 2009, while that of Distrito Metropolitano was estimated at 4,196,514 as of . At the time of its founding, more than four hundred years ago, the valley of Caracas was populated by indigenous peoples.
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