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. Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range. The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep 2,200-meter-high (7,200 ft) mountain range, Cerro El Ávila; to the south there are more hills and mountains. The Metropolitan Region of Caracas has an estimated population of almost 5 million inhabitants.
Venevisión is a Venezuelan free-to-air television channel and one of Venezuela's largest television networks, owned by the Cisneros Media division of Grupo Cisneros.
Miranda State is one of the 23 states of Venezuela and the second most populous after Zulia State. As of the 2011 census, it had a population of 2,675,165 residents. It also has the greatest Human Development Index in Venezuela, according to the Venezuelan National Institute of Statistics. The most recent population estimate was 3,194,390 in mid-2016.
The Caracas Metro is a mass rapid transit system serving Caracas, Venezuela. It was constructed and is operated by Compañía Anónima Metro de Caracas, a government-owned company that was founded in 1977 by José González-Lander who headed the project for more than thirty years since the early planning stages in the 1960s. Its motto is "Somos parte de tu vida". In 1978 MTA – New York City Transit's R46 #816 was shipped from the Pullman Standard's plant as a sample of rolling stock to be used for the new metro system that was under construction at the time.
Zuliana de Televisión, is a Venezuelan regional television station seen by those living the western Venezuelan state of Zulia. It broadcasts on UHF channel 30.
Promar TV is a Venezuelan regional television station that can be seen in the Lara, Barinas, Portuguesa, and Yaracuy states.
Dulce Nombre de Jesus de Petare is a neighborhood in Miranda, Venezuela, and is part of the Metropolitan District of Caracas. It is located in the Sucre Municipality, one of the five divisions of Caracas. The city was founded in 1621 under the name of San Jose de Guanarito. It grew to become a part of the Greater Caracas area as the latter expanded in area and population. Petare had a population of 372,106 inhabitants and about 448,861 according to 2020 estimates. Petare is the biggest slum in Venezuela, and in South America.
Deportivo Miranda Fútbol Club is a Venezuelan football club based in Caracas. Formed in 1948 as "Deportivo Italia F.C.", the club after fifty years merged with "Deportivo Chacao F.C." in 1998, and was called Deportivo Italchacao for eight years. The club has won the Primera División Venezolana five times and the Copa de Venezuela three times.
The Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela do not have official diplomatic relations, as Venezuela recognized the People's Republic of China in 1974, although unofficial relations were preserved through a Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Caracas until it was closed in 2009.
Británico Antonio Salas Díaz, better known as Tito Salas, was a Venezuelan painter, considered a significant contributor in the development of Venezuelan modern art.
Television in Venezuela began in 1952, when the president Marcos Pérez Jiménez launched the state channel Televisora Nacional, making Venezuela the ninth country in the world to have a public television network. By 1963, a quarter of Venezuelan households had television; a figure rising to 45% by 1969 and 85% by 1982. Telenovelas are popular in Venezuela, and some Venezuelan productions are distributed internationally. Perhaps the best known television show internationally was President Hugo Chávez' weekly talk show Aló Presidente, which began in 1999 and ended in 2012. The government also makes regular use of cadenas.
Arvei Angulo Rivas, known as El Prieto, is a rapper, songwriter and producer of Venezuelan hip hop.
The Bolivarian Communication and Information System (SiBCI) is a conglomerate of Venezuela state media that manages public radio, television, and multimedia attached to the Ministry of Popular Power for Communication and Information. It is located on channel 24.3 in Digital Terrestrial Television in Venezuela.
Jhonder Leonel Cádiz Fernández is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Primeira Liga club Famalicão and the Venezuela national team.
Miguel Alejandro Pizarro Rodríguez is a Venezuelan politician in the National Assembly who represents the district of Petare in Caracas. He is also known for his role in the 2014 Venezuelan protests.
Edmundo Rada Angulo, also known as Pipo, was a Venezuelan politician who served as councilman for the Popular Will party for Petare, in the Sucre Municipality of Caracas. Rada went missing on 16 October 2019 and was found dead the following day on the side of the road out of Petare, Caracas, burned and with two coup de grâce shots in the back of his neck.
Isabella Rodríguez Guzmán is a Venezuelan TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Venezuela 2018. She represented the state of Portuguesa at the pageant and represented Venezuela at the Miss World 2019 competition where she placed as Top 40.
Amanda Dudamel Newman is a Venezuelan fashion designer, model, philanthropist and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Venezuela 2021. She represented the Region Andina at the pageant. She also represented Venezuela at the Miss Universe 2022 competition placing as the 1st Runner-Up.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Petare is a diocese located in the city of Petare in the Ecclesiastical province of Caracas in Venezuela.
