Caracas

Venezuela

Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas. It is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of Venezuela, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range. The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the shore by a steep 2,200-meter-high mountain range, Cerro El Ávila.

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Country: Venezuela
Population: 2,985,000
Latitude: 10.5° N
Longitude: 66.92° O

Which way is Caracas from…

From Paris, Caracas lies at 261° to the west, 7,619 km as the crow flies.

Paris	261° west	7,619 km
London	258° west	7,498 km
New York	166° south	3,431 km
Madrid	260° west	6,994 km
Rome	271° west	8,357 km
Montreal	169° south	3,943 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	269° west	13,770 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Caracas lies west of London, at 258°, 7,498 km away, even though a flat map would place it south-west, at 233°. From Saint-Denis on Réunion, it is due west, at 269°, 13,770 km away. From New York, you aim south, at 166°. A landmark for Venezuela’s capital: it shares the latitude of San José.