Caracas

[ kuh-rah-kuhs; Spanish kah-rah-kahs ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Venezuela, in the N part.

Caracas

/ -ˈrɑː-; kəˈrækəs; kaˈrakas /

noun

1. the capital of Venezuela, in the north: founded in 1567; major industrial and commercial centre, notably for oil companies. Pop: 3 276 000 (2005 est)

Caracas

1. Capital of Venezuela and the largest city in the country, located in northern Venezuela near the Caribbean Sea ; commercial, industrial, and cultural center of the nation.

Example Sentences

Following the country’s economic collapse and subsequent food shortages, 28 people in a Caracas suburb died within days of each other, leading some to fear that a deadly virus was spreading within their community.

From Eater

She knew next to nothing about the country’s culture or politics, but prepared to write for a Venezuelan audience by reading classic novels and traveling to Caracas, where she filled her notebook with snippets of conversation.

From Washington Post

In the years following my first memorable outing, I returned to Caracas over and over again.

From Eater

Gracie packed up her Wellington boots, long-sleeved shirts, and trousers, and flew to Caracas with a five-liter alembic still.

From The Daily Beast

The result was a perfect storm of commuter congestion where “normal Caracas chaos became absolute mayhem.”

From The Daily Beast

Maria “Macarena” Paz, a Caracas engineer, is underwhelmed by this explanation.

From The Daily Beast

Julio Cesar Rosas (a pseudonym) owns a medium-sized business in Los Cortijos, a district in east-central Caracas.

From The Daily Beast

Caracas was plunged into darkness in the middle of a televised speech by President Nicolas Maduro.

From The Daily Beast

The taking of Caracas in 1595 showed him as not only an able leader, but as an extraordinarily gifted tactician.

From Project Gutenberg

Caracas was then, as it is now, the head-quarters of the colony, which was separated from the Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1731.

From Project Gutenberg

The American Army plane banked sharply over the blacked-out Caracas field.

From Project Gutenberg

In due course he reached the spot—a small Indian village in the mountains, some fifteen miles from Caracas.

From Project Gutenberg

“I have come all the way from Caracas to Wellington,” he said.

From Project Gutenberg