Miraflores is the name of several places in Spanish-speaking countries. It means "behold the flowers" or "flowers view" from mirar and flores ("flowers"). It is commonly used as a name for a region or neighborhood that is considered especially beautiful or ornate.
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.
São Cristóvão is a traditional neighborhood in the north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Caballito is a barrio (neighborhood) of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. It is the only barrio in the administrative division Comuna 6.
Carlos Raúl Villanueva Astoul was a Venezuelan modernist architect. Raised in Europe, Villanueva went for the first time to Venezuela when he was 28 years old. He was involved in the development and modernization of Caracas, Maracay and other cities across the country. Among his works are El Silencio Redevelopment which included 7797 apartments and 207 shop premises and the Ciudad Universitaria, the main campus of the Central University of Venezuela. The Campus was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the year 2000.
The City of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico is divided mainly into areas called Colonias, which incorporate residential and commercial elements.
Chapinero is the 2nd locality of Bogotá, capital of Colombia. It is located in the north of the city and is one of the more affluent districts of the city. This district is mostly inhabited by upper-class residents. The boundaries are Calle 39 in the south, Avenida Caracas in the west, Calle 100 in the north and the Eastern Hills in the east.
Teusaquillo is the 13th locality of Bogotá, capital of Colombia. It is located in the geographic center of the city, to the northwest of downtown Bogotá. This district is inhabited by middle and upper class residents. It is an urbanized locality with several green zones as parks, avenues, and the campus of the National University of Colombia. Most of the heritage buildings and houses of Bogotá are in this locality. It is located on the former site of an indigenous resguardo known as Pueblo Viejo, which existed until the main urbanization phase of the 20th century.
Madrid, the capital of Spain, is divided into 21 districts, which are further subdivided into 131 administrative wards. Additional neighborhoods exist outside the boundaries of administrative borders. Each district is governed by a body named Junta Municipal de Distrito. Residents of Madrid are typically called Madrileños.
San Bernardino District is one of four districts of the province San Pablo in Peru.
El Rosal is a neighbourhood of Caracas, Venezuela, in the Chacao municipality. It is located at East Caracas, near the geographic center of Caracas and is one of its financial centres. It has an estimated area of 50.9 hectares
La Castellana is a district in Caracas, Venezuela, located in the northeast part of the city, La Castellana is bordered on the south by Chacao, on the east by Altamira (Caracas) neighbourhood, on the west by Caracas Country Club and Campo Alegre neighbourhood and on the north by El Ávila National Park. It has an approximate surface of 98 hectares.
The Birthplace of Simón Bolívar is a seventeenth-century house in the Venezuelan capital city Caracas where the hero of Venezuelan and Latin American independence, Simón Bolívar, was born. Now a significant tourist attraction, the building is located in a little street off the Plaza San Jacinto, a block east of the Plaza Bolívar. It is one of only a few houses from the colonial era which survive in central Caracas.
East Caracas generally refers to the eastern portions of Caracas, and may refer specifically to the municipalities from the Metropolitan District of Caracas located in Miranda State: Chacao, Baruta, Sucre, and El Hatillo. It concentrates the 34.8% population of the Metropolitan District of Caracas, and the 21.7% population of the Greater Caracas Area. Caracas Country Club, the richest neighborhood of the city, is located between El Recreo and Chacao districts.
Los Cuñaos[coo-nyah'-os] is an eight-part vocal group established in Caracas, Venezuela in 1974. Their repertoire is based on popular Venezuelan songs adapted to their own unique style of singing, performing a crossover of traditional and pop genres while contrasting their work with rich and warm harmonies.
Elba Damast was a Venezuelan artist.
Margarita Morselli is an artist who is considered a pioneer in the use of a video as a form of artistic expression in Paraguay. The work she presented was on abstraction with references to real spaces.
José Tomás Reyes Vicuña was a Chilean politician and architect who served as President of the Senate of Chile.
The Quinta de Anauco is a colonial house in Caracas, Venezuela, that since 1958 has housed the Caracas Museum of Colonial Art. The Quinta was built 1797, and hosted Simón Bolívar in 1827. In 1978 it was declared an Historic National Monument of Venezuela.
