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82 unusual facts about Caracas


1963 Pulitzer Prize

Hector Rondon, photographer of Caracas, for the Venezuelan newspaper, La Republica, for his remarkable picture of a priest holding a wounded soldier in the 1962 El Porteñazo insurrection in Venezuela: Aid From The Padre.

Acosada

She travels to Venezuela, and when arriving in Caracas, she soon discovers that her contract is a hoax made by a major drug baron.

Alejandro Planchart

He was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and moved to the United States to study at Yale University, where he received the degrees of Mus.B.

Ángel Espada

He was beaten by Luis Acosta in Caracas by decision in ten rounds to stop that winning streak, but he avenged the defeat against Acosta with a ten round win over him in a rematch held in San Juan.

Battle of La Guaira

La Guaira was a port of the Royal Gipuzkoan Company of Caracas, whose ships had rendered great assistance to the Spanish navy during the war in carrying troops, arms, stores and ammunition from Spain to her colonies, and its destruction would be a severe blow both to the Company and the Spanish Government.

Battle of Puerto Cabello

Puerto Cabello was the careening port of the Royal Gipuzkoan Company of Caracas, whose ships had rendered great assistance to the Spanish navy during the war in carrying troops, arms, stores and ammunition from Spain to her colonies, and its destruction would be a severe blow both to the Company and the Spanish Government.

Bernhard Wagner

Bernhard Wagner (born in Caracas, living in Zürich) is a guitar player, composer, software engineer and software engineering lecturer.

Camille Pissarro

Pissarro then chose to leave his family and job and live in Venezuela, where he and Melbye spent the next two years working as artists in Caracas.

Candy Costie

She received a gold medal in duet (with Tracie Ruiz) at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas.

Carmen Julia Álvarez

Carmen Julia Álvarez (born 4 November 1952 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan actress.

Carmina Slovenica

The ensemble has performed in many venues world-wide: the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, the Teresa Carreño Theatre in Caracas, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires.

Caroline Lloyd

Her best known composition was the Spanish-language opera Doña Bárbara performed in Caracas, July 1967.

Cornelis Zitman

Two years later he moved to Caracas, where he worked as a furniture designer at a factory of which he later became manager.

Cornelius C. Smith

A military attaché in Bogota and Caracas for a time during 1915, he rose through the ranks from major to colonel of cavalry within the next two years.

Currency of Venezuela

Claiming a shortage of circulating coin, Caracas petitioned for distinctive coins with an intrinsic value below standard that would only circulate locally.

Banco Central released a 5-bolívares note (authorized May 10, 1966) commemorating the 400th anniversary of the founding of Caracas in 1567.

Trade, especially in cacao, brought money to the colony in the late 17th century in the form of coin from the Mexico money supply increased significantly after the Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas obtained a trade monopoly in 1729, and Spanish and Spanish-American coin became a common form of payment.

Cyrano Fernandez

The movie is based on the romantic triangle between Cyrano (Edgar Ramirez), Cristian (Pastor Oviedo) and Roxanna (Jessika Grau) during the turbulent riots between a group of drug dealers and the neighbours of a shanty town in Caracas.

Digitel GSM

The company began a network expansion program in July 2006, and by the end of the year more than 1,070 radio bases had been installed, 7 switches in Caracas, Valencia, Puerto La Cruz and Maracaibo, stretching its GPRS/EDGE network in the West of the country and offering communication, data, information and entertainment to all its customers.

Douglas Fernández

His major achievement was winning the silver medal at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas.

Edith Jiménez

She evolved with her artistic production and continued with the presentations of her works to the audience participating in numerous collective samples in Asuncion, San Paulo, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Montevideo and in country sides of Paraguay.

Eduardo Kingman

At this time and later his original prints and paintings were exhibited internationally in such cities as Paris, Washington, San Francisco, Mexico City, Caracas and Bogotá.

Eduardo Schlageter

Eduardo Schalgeter was born November 17, 1893 in Caracas, Venezuela and as soon as he reached the right age, he was sent to the Venezuelan German School in Caracas, where he studied until he was 8 years old.

Eileen Abad

Eileen Abad (born in Caracas, Venezuela on November 15, 1973) is a Venezuelan actress and model of national and international experience acting in many films, soap operas.

Errico Petrella

The one performance available on CD, that of Jone, took place in Caracas in 1981.

Eugene Biel-Bienne

From 1954 to 1956, he lived in Caracas, Venezuela, where his sister lived, and he exhibited his paintings in the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo.

Foreign relations of Barbados

Barbados is accredited in Chile through its embassy in Caracas, (Venezuela).

Foreign relations of Solomon Islands

In October 2008, Solomons Prime Minister Derek Sikua moved to establish economic relations with Caracas, hoping to benefit from comparatively cheap Venezuelan oil.

Francisco Fajardo

In 1555 to 1557 he made several expeditions from Margarita to conquer the Caracas tribe (near present-day Caracas).

Heather M. Hodges

Hodges joined the Foreign Service in 1980 and was assigned to Caracas, Venezuela.

Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg

Ochoa-Brillembourg earned a BS in economics from the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in Caracas.

Internet in Venezuela

Internet use in Venezuela greatly expanded since 1998, but is mostly concentrated among younger, educated city residents, and use is centered around the capital, Caracas.

Islam in Venezuela

On 20 July 2006, dozens of people marched in Caracas towards the Israeli embassy to protest against the war in Lebanon.

Jacques Zwobada

The same year, Zwobada flew out to Venezuela for two years, having been seconded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to teach at the École des Beaux-Arts of Caracas and as an artistic advisor to the government of Venezuela.

Jan Emil Skiwski

Jan Emil Skiwski (13 February 1894, Warsaw - 2 March 1956, Caracas) was a Polish writer, journalist and literary critic.

Joel Casique

He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Venezuela, the United States, and Aruba; he has also participated in national and international fairs, including the sixteenth and seventeenth Ferias Iberoamericanas de Arte (FIA) in Caracas; the 2007 Latin American Art Fair in Miami; and the 2006 Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá (ARTBO) in Bogotá, Colombia.

Joel Gerardo Casique (born 1958 in San Cristóbal, Venezuela; died 17 December 2010 in Caracas) was an artist who formed the Escuela Cristóbal Rojas de Caracas.

John William Grover

Venezuelan railways, notably surveying the mountain route from La Guaira to Caracas in 1872

Jorge Urosa

Before becoming vicar general of the Archdiocese of Caracas, he was President of the Organization of Latin American Seminaries and founded a parochial vicariate in a chabolas neighborhood of Caracas.

Urosa was later named Archbishop of Valencia on March 16, 1990, and Archbishop of Caracas on September 19, 2005.

He currently serves as Archbishop of Caracas, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2006.

Jorge Urosa was born in Caracas to Luis Manuel Urosa Joud and Ligia Savino del Castillo de Urosa.

José Asunción Silva

Incapable of paying his family's enormous debts, Silva accepted a diplomatic post in Caracas.

José Lebrún Moratinos

José Lebrún Moratinos (19 March 1919 – 21 February 2001) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and former Archbishop of Caracas.

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José Vicente Rangel Ávalos

José Vicente Rangel Ávalos is a Venezuelan politician, former mayor of Sucre Municipality in Caracas.

Josefina Benedetti

She studied piano in Caracas and London, finished her studies at the National Conservatory of Music, Juan José Landaeta, and studied choral conducting at the University Institute of Musical Studies, Magister Scientiarum, in Latin American.

Jullye Giliberti

Jullye Kayherine Giliberti Cevedo (born April 23, 1976 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actress best known for her roles in telenovelas.

Kellee Santiago

Santiago was born in Caracas, Venezuela and was raised in Richmond, Virginia, where she played video games from a young age and was encouraged by her software engineer father to experiment with computers.

Kid Gavilán

In 1951, after beating Tommy Ciarlo twice, once in Caracas, Venezuela, and Hairston once again, he finally became a world champion when he beat Johnny Bratton for the world Welterweight title by a decision in 15 on May 18.

Laura Andel

She is the leader of the Laura Andel Orchestra and has conducted her music in cities including New York, Boston, Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Berlin.

Libertador Simón Bolívar Terminal

Caracas Libertador Simón Bolívar railway station is found in the southern part of Caracas, Venezuela, in an area known as La Rinconada.

Manuel Cabré

From a young age he lIved in Venezuela after arriving along with his father who was invited by President Joaquín Crespo to undertake activities in public works in Caracas.

Marek Szwarc

The artist's works are on display in museums, public halls, places of worship, and private collections in Poland, Israel, Montreal, Caracas, the United States, and England.

Mario Abreu

Competent in drawing since childhood, Abreu made his first drawings aged 9 and 10, when he painted his first landscapes, and moved to Caracas at a young age.

Mario Masciulli

He died in Caracas, of natural causes on October 16, 1991, in peace .

Mario Elbano Masciulli Manelli, Baron Miglianico (Livorno, Italy September 15, 1909 - Caracas, Venezuela October 16, 1991) was a prominent military engineer of the Italian Regia Marina, Major of Genio Navale and belonging to the recognized Decima Flottiglia MAS as director of the Office of Submarine Secret Weapons during Second World War.

Marisol Escobar

Maria Sol Escobar (born May 22, 1930), otherwise known simply as Marisol, is a sculptor born in Paris of Venezuelan lineage, living in Europe, the United States and Caracas.

Ministry of Ground Transport

The ministry has its headquarters in the Torre MTT in Chacao, Caracas, Miranda.

Nathaniel Davis

Davis began his Foreign Service career with an assignment in Prague in 1947, followed by postings in Florence, Rome and Moscow, before returning to the U.S. in 1956 to work at the Soviet Desk at the State Department in Washington, D.C. His next foreign assignment was in Caracas, Venezuela, from 1960 to 1962.

Paul Arcelin

He has written for such well-known newspapers as El Nacional of Caracas, Venezuela, El Tiempo (Bogotá, Colombia) and the Observateur of Haiti.

Purplish Honeycreeper

The type locality on the specimen’s label was given as Caracas in Venezuela.

Rick Chartraw

Raymond Richard Chartraw (born July 13, 1954 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 420 games in the National Hockey League between 1974 and 1984.

Chartraw was born in Caracas, Venezuela while his American father was employed there as an engineer.

Romance: En Vivo

Romance: En Vivo is a VHS video from Mexican singer Luis Miguel that was recorded in 1992 during the concert tour called Tour Romance (also known as Gira Romance ) that Luis Miguel perform in various places like Caracas, Venezuela, in the Circus Maximus Theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada, in a concert in Seville, Spain, and in the National Auditorium in Mexico City, where he broke the World Record by selling the 10,000 tickets for his only show in 3 hours.

Rosalio José Castillo Lara

Third son of seven children, he was ordained a priest on 4 September 1949, by his uncle, Archbishop Castillo Hernandez of Caracas.

Roxana Díaz Burgos

Roxana Díaz Burgos (born February 20, 1972 in Caracas) is Venezuelan television actress.

Sabah Fakhri

His name is enshrined in the Guinness Book of Records for his prowess in Caracas, Venezuela where he sang continuously for 10 hours without pause.

Serge Blanco

Serge Blanco (born 31 August 1958 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a former rugby union footballer who played fullback for Biarritz Olympique and the French national side, gaining 93 caps, 81 of them at fullback.

Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice

In September 1980, the United Nations held its Sixth Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in Caracas, Venezuela.

Television in Venezuela

There are also local community-run television stations such as Televisora Comunitaria del Oeste de Caracas (CatiaTVe, 2001) and a range of regional networks such as Zuliana de Televisión.

Thomas Christian Kavanagh

Kavanagh was responsible for several major engineering projects, including the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, the Hawkins Point Floating Bridge on the St. Lawrence River, plans for the Caracas (Venezuela) subway system, and the Long Island Sound bridge crossing.

Torre Mayor

In 2003 Torre Mayor surpassed by less than one meter the 225-meter- (738-foot-) high towers of the Parque Central Complex in Caracas (Venezuela).

TV Petare

This television station is made up of a diverse group of people living in different areas throughout the Caracas neighborhood of Petare.

Uh... Oh... Ah...

That night, Quinn confronts the CEO and makes a veiled threat on his life while hinting that he was the one who killed the banker's associate in Caracas.

United to End Racism

Since then, it has attended international NGO conferences such as the 2001 Durban World Conference against Racism and more recently the World Social Forum in Caracas, the World Peace Forum 2006 in Vancouver (where the organisation labelled itself "Healing from War, Working for Peace") and the White Privilege Conference 2006 in Pella, Iowa.

Venezuelan Professional Baseball League

On December 27, 1945, the owners of the Caracas Brewery (Cervecería Caracas, present day Caracas Lions or Leones del Caracas), Vargas Wisemen (Sabios de Vargas), the Magellan Navigators (Navegantes del Magallanes), and Venezuela BBC created the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.

The new owners renamed the team (reigning champions by that time) as Caracas Lions (Leones del Caracas), after the full name of the city, Santiago de Leon de Caracas.

Winnipeg Art Gallery

Winnipeg Art Gallery is internationally respected, exhibitions having been shown in New York, Caracas, Bogotá, Barcelona, Tokyo, Thessaloniki, and Verona.

Yegor Lavroff

Currently Lavrov lives in the Dominican Republic, while also operates businesses in Miami, Florida, United States; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Caracas, Venezuela; Madrid, Spain; Panama City, Panama; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Pétionville, Haiti; and Lima, Peru.

Youri Messen-Jaschin

He was awarded grants from the Foundation Mendoza and Yonekura Industrial and designed stage sets at the Sala of Conciertos del Ateneo and Teatro Ana Julia Rojas del Ateneo in Caracas.

Yūichi Kasai

Although he lost in a fight for the WBA Fedelatin junior featherweight title via a sixth round technical knockout in Caracas, Venezuela in September of the same year, he captured the OPBF junior featherweight title in the next fight on February 4, 1995, and defended it once.


1990 Caribbean Series

The club got a fine offensive performances from outfielder and Series MVP Gerónimo Berroa, who hit .300 with four home runs and eight runs batted in, including two homers and five RBI in the decisive game against the Senadores de San Juan of Puerto Rico, who tied for second with the Leones del Caracas of Venezuela.

2010 Women's Baseball World Cup

The game was held at Estadio José Antonio Casanova in Fort Tiuna, a military garrison in Caracas.

Alfredo Corvino

His international teaching credits include the Folkwang Hochschule in Germany, Bellas Artes in Caracas, the Rotterdamse Dansacademie in the Netherlands, the Theatre Contemporain de la Danse in Paris, the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Taiwan, and the International Festival of Dance Academies in Hong Kong.

Antonio Ledezma

Opponents of Chavez described the move as a deliberate negation of the popular vote, while supporters described the political and budgetary reorganization as an "act of justice" for Libertador, the largest and poorest of the five municipalities making up Caracas.

Aserca Airlines

Aserca's operations were centred around Valencia, but it managed to develop Caracas as a hub after 1994 which made it experience a significant growth in its market share, expanding its network to Bogotá, Lima and Miami (no longer in service) via Aruba.

Camilo Daza International Airport

In March 2008, was the epicenter for the arrival of direct international flights from Madrid, Miami, San Jose, Quito and Caracas on the grounds of the Peace Without Borders concert held in Cúcuta.

El Rosal, Caracas

El Rosal lies east of the Libertador municipality, west of the El Retiro neighborhood, north of Las Mercedes and south of the Caracas Country Club and Campo Alegre neighborhood.

Francisco Narváez

Francisco José Narváez (4 October 1905, Porlamar, - 13 July 1982, Caracas) was a Venezuelan sculptor who is perhaps best-known for "Las Toninas", a sculptural group that decorates the fountain of the Plaza O'Leary in Caracas.

Freddie Sauer

Sauer had his breakthrough year in 1982, when he was a quarter-finalist at Caracas, Cologne, Dortmund and Stowe.

Gastón Acurio

It opened in the district of Miraflores in Lima and expanded in Latin America and recently in Europe, opening restaurants in Santiago de Chile, Bogotá, Quito, Caracas, all South America and Europe.

Graciela Naranjo

At this time, she received contract offers from Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico, but chose to stick around Caracas and raised a family instead of pursuing an international artistic career.

J. Paul Getty

They were picking up Sutton Place phones and placing calls to girlfriends in Geneva or Georgia and to aunts, uncles and third cousins twice-removed in Caracas and Cape Town.

Jacqueline Faría

Opponents of Chavez described the move as a deliberate negation of the popular vote, while supporters described the political and budgetary reorganization as an "act of justice" for Libertador Bolivarian Municipality, the largest and poorest of the five municipalities making up Caracas.

Karen Soto

Soto was crowned Miss Venezuela World 2013 during the first edition of Miss Venezuela World pageant, held on August 10, 2013 in Caracas.

Luis López Álvarez

Starting in 1968 he worked for UNESCO as an international functionary of the United Nations and held various positions in Paris, Havana, and Caracas: Service Chief of Radio and Television in the Spanish Language, Regional Adviser of Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, Regional Director for the same region, Ombudsman in the Parisian headquarters and Coordinator, from Caracas, of the activities of the same organization in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Maestro Armando Ortega

Many of his works were performed by the stars of his age: the tenor Raphael J. Sevilla, the first ballet dancer Luis Mauricio Caracas, the singer Betty Fabila, Maestro Ramón Noble, the Baritone Fernando Vivanco Barceló, and performances from the Maestro himself, who had a wonderful voice too.

Otilio Galíndez

From an early age Galindez demonstrated musical inclinations, and supported by his mother in song and poetry in 1957 he was brought to Caracas where he worked at the Central University of Venezuela, forming part of the University choir, with teachers like: Antonio Estévez, Inocente Carreño and Modesta Bor,which was an experience that motivated his musical creation to go even farther than before.

Rodrigo Granda affair

On 13 December 2004, Rodrigo Granda, a member (the "foreign minister") of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or "FARC"), was captured by individual Venezuelan officials in Caracas, Venezuela, and transferred to Cúcuta, Colombia (a departmental capital on the two nations' common border), where he was arrested by the Colombian authorities on 14 December.

Rugby union in Venezuela

The most important tournaments are The National Championship (in Caracas), the Walter Bishop tournament (in Mérida) and the Sevens tournament (in Santa Teresa, Aragua state ).

Sonica

They opened a concert in Caracas on July 18 (2011) for pop-punk singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, during her "The Black Star Tour".

Susan S. Jacobs

Her Foreign Service career has also included tours in Caracas, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Bucharest, and San Salvador.

Venezuela at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Julio César León, the first and only representative of Venezuela in those games had to get support from the British Embassy in Caracas in order to travel to London.

Vittorio Missoni

Vittorio Missoni's plane, a forty-four year old Britten-Norman Islander, disappeared on January 4, 2013, after taking off from Los Roques Airport in the Los Roques archipelago, where he had been vacationing, en route to Caracas, Venezuela.