Venezuelans from the Libertador Municipality (Capital District)

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The Libertador Municipality (Municipio Libertador in Spanish) is the only administrative division of the Capital District. With a population of roughly 2.1 million inhabitants, a surface are of 433 square kilometers, and at an average altitude of 909 meters above sea level, the Libertador municipality occupies roughly the western half of the city of Caracas plus some rural mountain areas on the west, including the mountain town of El Junquito (1700 meters above sea level). This Capital district, along with the 4 municipalites of eastern Caracas that belong to Miranda state (Sucre, Chacao, El Hatillo and Baruta) conform the Caracas Metropolitan District (Distrito Metropolitano de Caracas).

Location of Libertador Municipality (main map showing its location between Vargas (or La Guaira) state in the north and Miranda state in the east and south, and small map showing its location within Venezuela on the bottom right):



Another more detailed map showing how it roughly occupies the western half of Caracas, some mountainous areas to the west up to the town of El Junquito and the Macarao National park (in the SW), and the southern outskirts of the mountains (El Avila National Park) that separate Caracas from the Caribbean sea:



Map showing the different parishes of Libertador Municipality (Capital District), which I will mention when posting pics and videos:



Flag of the Capital District:



Coat of Arms that it always had since colonial times (and it should have kept it always like that) on the left, Vs the stupid coat of Arms (made in this stupid revolution) that it has since 2022 to present :



They changed the previous coat of arms and the anthem too

While most of eastern Caracas (excluding the slum of Petare and some few other smaller slums) is full of middle to upper class neighborhoods, the Libertador Municipality has less upper middle and upper class areas. It has financial areas full of highrises, the historical center, many poor slums (barriadas), but also many middle class, and lower middle clhigh rises,

Resuming: while most of eastern Caracas (excluding Petare and some smaller slums) is middle to upper class, western Caracas (Libertador municipality) is mostly middle to lower class. I mean, it has many middle class areas, but then has less rich and exclusive areas and more poorer areas compared to eastern Caracas.

Pics and Videos coming up on next posts...

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Forgot to say that on this map of the different parishes of the Libertador Municipality (Capital District):



the doted lines delimit the urbanized areas of western Caracas (the city limits). The area of Macarao parish out of the doted lines (that corresponds to the Macarao National park, that is a forest reservoir), the Area of El Junquito out of the doted lines, and the area of Sucre parish out of the doted lines (to its west side), are all rural mountainous areas west of Caracas. And the northern parts out of the doted lines of the northern parishes of El Recreo, San Bernardino, Altagracia, La Pastora, and northern Sucre (out of the doted lines) correspond to the parts of those parishes that are in the southern slope (out of the urban fabric) of the Avila (or Guaraira Repano) national park, which is the mountain that separates Caracas from the Caribbean sea.

Location of La Candelaria Parish within the Capital District (also can be appreciated in the map above):



In the very heart of the city of Caracas, and very close to the city historical center, lays the very populous parish of La Candelaria (almost 70,000 inhabitants).

This video is in La Candelaria Parish, in mother's day. Showing the streets of La Candelaria with very large crowds of people, and later on in the video the new shopping center Sambil La Candelaria, also full of people:



Walking in the streets of La Candelaria, Libertador Municipality, in western Caracas (lots of people too):

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Location of Sucre parish (Catia) within the Libertador Municipality:



Population: above 400,000 inhabitants

Average Altitude: 967 meters above sea level.

Sucre is one of the poorest areas of Libertador Municipality and the entire city of Caracas. Just like Petare (Miranda) in the very far east of Caracas, Sucre parish (Catia) is like a western version of Petare. Is a parish with an historical center (that I guess is mostly lower middle class) in the very east of the parish (plaza Sucre, Catia Boulevard, etc), with a big favela occupying much of the rest of it.

Some foreign people have this wrong idea of Caracas Valley being surrounded by favelas (known as ranchos in Venezuela) everywhere in all directions (LOL), but far from it, the hills full of favelas are mostly present only in the hills bordering the Caracas Valley (that is a long valley that measures like 20 kilometers from east to west, and only like 6-8 kilometers wide in north-south direction) in the very far east of it (Petare in Miranda state) and the hills in the westernmost parts of the city, all of them located in the most western and southwestern parts of Libertador Municipality (Catia in the Northwest, La Vega, Carapita and Antimano in the west/southwest, San Agustin south of Caracas downtown, and the favelas (or ranchos) in the western hills surrounding the parishes of El Valle and Coche, in the very southwest of Caracas). Most of the area of the city of Caracas (excluding those hills full of favelas in the very far east and the very west of the city) is middle class, lower middle class, upper middle class, etc. The mountain that borders the Caracas Valley on its north and separates the city of Caracas from the Caribbean sea is El Avila National park (also known as Waraira Repano) with NO favelas in there, but only wild nature, and the southern hills of Caracas are mostly middle/upper middle/upper class suburbs, corresponding with the municipalities of Baruta and El Hatillo (both of them in Miranda state). There is a couple of small favelas (Las Minas and La Palomera) in those southern hills of Caracas (both of them within the Baruta municipality, in Miranda state), but they are very far and non-visible from the main valley of Caracas, and are a very small proportion of the total area and population of the whole municipality of Baruta, that is mostly middle to upper class (in the southern hills of Caracas).

With all this made clear, and going back to the Libertador Municipality (Capital District) and the Northwestern parish of Sucre (Catia) in the very northwest of the city of Caracas...

The school that I'm going to post pics of it in the following posts (Colegio El Vivero) is in the very heart of a favela in the very west of Catia, almost in the very northwestern corner of Caracas, and not far from the very exit of the highway that goes from Caracas to the coast (to Maiquetia and La Guaira). To give you an idea of the social environment and location of that school, these are few pics of the school location and the landscapes as seen from it.

Landscape as seen from the school itself. The picture is taken pointing to Northwest direction. Notice the shanty precarious dwellings. The Caribbean sea is far in the very background:



Same landscape form same perspective and pointing to the same NW direction, but in a cloudy day:



Picture of the school itself taken from outside of it. The picture is taken from somewhere in the favela itself, pointing to North east direction, and the school is that building in the very middle of the favela. The high mountain in the very background is El Avila national park (the mountain that separates Caracas from the sea):



So, what I'm going to show on next posts doesn't resume the entire demography of Caracas (LOL), but the lower class from Caracas, as dark as it can get (and there is still some racial variety in there, with not everybody being black or very African leaning. Lots of them, yes, but not all of them).

Pics of this school (mostly pics of the school, but also few pics of people of the shanty neighborhood where this school is located) on next posts...

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School El Vivero in Catia (Sucre parish), in the very Northwest of the Capital District (Libertador municipality). Mostly students, but few pics of parents and teachers too:

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More pics from the school "El Vivero" in the favelas of Catia (Sucre parish):

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More pics from same school (El Vivero) in Catia:

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Continuing with same school (El Vivero) in the favela of Catia:

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El gusto del Chavismo por lo estéticamente repulsivo

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Continuing with the school El Vivero, in Catia:

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