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Rodolfo Quintero (ed.), Estudio de Caracas (1967– ), is a comprehensive multivolume analysis of ecological, economic, technological, and other aspects of the city. José Manuel Guevara Díaz, Geografía de las regiones central y capital (1983), is part of a series on the geography of Venezuela. Soledad Mendoza (ed.), Así es Caracas (1980), includes numerous photographs; Graziano Gasparini and Juan Pedro Posani, Caracas: a través de su arquitectura (1969), extensively examines the city’s architecture. Aspects of poverty and violence are examined in Patricia C. Márquez, The Street Is My Home: Youth and Violence in Caracas (1999).

Works with a historical focus include Claudio Perna, Evolución de la geografía urbana de Caracas (1981); John V. Lombardi, Venezuela: The Search for Order, the Dream of Progress (1982), which emphasizes the national dominance of Caracas; and Carlos Eduardo Misle, Sabor de Caracas, 2nd ed. (1981). Donna Keyse Rudolph and G.A. Rudolph, Historical Dictionary of Venezuela, 2nd ed., rev., enlarged, and updated (1995), includes entries on the people and events that have shaped Caracas.

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Updated population. Aug 24, 2026
Add new Web site: Academia - Caracas Towards a New City. Nov 07, 2024
Map added. Jun 12, 2023
Corrected display issue. Nov 13, 2019
Media added. Jun 20, 2016
Media added. Jul 06, 2015
Population data updated. Jul 06, 2015
Add new Web site: Maps of World - Caracas, Venezuela. Dec 01, 2013
Add new Web site: CRW Flags - Flag of Caracas, Venezuela. Dec 01, 2013
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Geography - Geography of Caracas. Jul 30, 2008
Bibliography revised. Mar 22, 2007
Article revised and updated. Mar 22, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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