1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Venezuela
Compare this sourced profile of Caracas, Venezuela before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Caracas—3,000,000, America/Caracas, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and largest city of Venezuela.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Caracas is GeoNames ID 3646738. Its recorded administrative path is Municipio Libertador → Distrito Federal → Venezuela, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Caracas occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-11-01; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Caracas ranks 119 by recorded population. Inside the 7 selected Venezuela entries it ranks 1; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 9. Its 3,000,000 population value is 2.42 times the 1,240,714 median for the country cohort and 3.68 times the 816,326 regional median. Caracas is rank 1 among the 7 selected Venezuela entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Caracas's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Caracas's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Valencia (Venezuela) at 127.918 km with 1,619,470 recorded people; Barcelona (Venezuela) at 242.877 km with 815,141 recorded people; Barquisimeto at 275.158 km with 1,240,714 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 147.24 km. Compared with Valencia (Venezuela), Caracas's recorded population is 1.85 times as large. Against Caracas, Valencia (Venezuela) follows Municipio Valencia → Carabobo → Venezuela in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Venezuela cohort, uses the shared America/Caracas identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Caracas's. Against Caracas, Barcelona (Venezuela) follows Municipio Simon Bolivar → Anzoategui → Venezuela in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Venezuela cohort, uses the shared America/Caracas identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Caracas's. Against Caracas, Barquisimeto follows Municipio Iribarren → Lara → Venezuela in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Venezuela cohort, uses the shared America/Caracas identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Caracas's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 812 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Caracas's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3646738, the coordinate pair 10.4880 / 66.8792, country rank 1 of 7, and neighbor GeoNames 3625549 at 127.918 km bind Caracas to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Caracas's reference point is 10.4880° north and 66.8792° west. The IANA identifier America/Caracas is shared by 7 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Caracas's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Caracas's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Caracas's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Caracas, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Caracas's closest other entries in this atlas are Valencia (Venezuela) (127.918 km), Barcelona (Venezuela) (242.877 km), Barquisimeto (275.158 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-11-01; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.