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Useful data for the Route:
Caracas – El Avila - Venezuela |
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Caracas |
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Telephone
Code: (212).
Population: 5,000,000 inhabitants.
Average Temperature: 22°C.
Rainy season: From May to November.
Distance from the main cities: Barcelona (319 Km.), Barquisimeto
(351 Km.), Ciudad Bolívar (599 Km.), Coro (445 Km.), Maracaibo
(706 Km.), Mérida (680 Km.) and Valencia (158 Km.).
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El
Avila |
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The
temperature ranges from 27 °C at sea level to 22 °C in Caracas
at 900 m and reaches 0 °C on Naiguatá Peak. The rainy season
extends from May to November, while the dry season lasts from
December to April.
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Caracas
Shopping Centers |
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Boleíta
Center.
Located at Principal Avenue, Boleíta and Tiuna Street, Boleíta
Norte. One of Caracas’ newest shopping centers, it offers
visitors a variety of shops, restaurants and entertainment
facilities on three broad, modern levels, making it a new
alternative for shopping.
Tamanaco City Center Shopping Center (CCCT).
Located at La Estancia Avenue in Chuao.
El Recreo.
This shopping center strategically located at the corner of
Casanova Avenue and El Recreo Street in Sabana Grande in one of
Caracas’ most thriving commercial sectors next to the renowned
Gran Meliá Caracas Hotel has become a highly attractive and
popular center for shopping and entertainment.
Sambil.
One of Caracas’ most elegant shopping centers, Sambil is
located at Libertador Avenue in the Bello Campo sector of Chaco,
where visitors can shop at a variety of top-rated stores, snack
or dine, see a movie, take their children to an amusement park,
bowl, do their banking or merely stroll around.
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Caracas
Cultural Centers |
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Caracas Ateneo (Athenaeum)
México Avenue, Morelos Square, Los Caobos.
- Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex
México Avenue, El Conde Sector, Los Caobos.
- P.D.V.S.A. La Estancia Art Center
La Floresta Urbanization, Chacao Municipality in Miranda State
in the heart of Caracas’ Metropolitan Area. Standing on 35,000
square meters of land, the complex was conceived to promote
creativity, knowledge and appreciation of design and
photography, artistic alternatives that contribute through the
application of creative and aesthetic processes to achieving the
functionality of objects for collective use. A space for
technical culture, La Estancia is an initiative that is part of
Petróleos de Venezuela’s Cultural Effort to serve as a bridge
between industry, technology, culture and the community.
(58-212) 208.04.11 / 04.72.
(58-212) 208.04.45.
- National Art Gallery.
Located on the Museum Square, the Gallery has a collection of
over five thousand works by Venezuelan artists, ranging from
anonymous painters of the pre-Hispanic period through masters
and painters of the nineteenth century to twentieth century
landscape painters of the "Caracas School." It has an
important program of exhibitions that include guided visits,
workshops, concerts, forums and talks. The Gallery is open to
the public free of charge Tuesday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m. and weekends from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(0212) 578.18.18.
 gan@infoline.wtfe.com.
Web Site: www.wtfe.com/gan.
- Bolivarian Museum
This genuine colonial-style home houses valuable objects that
belonged to Simón Bolívar. Located near Bolívar square and
the Cathedral between the corners of San Jacinto and Traposos,
it is accessible by metro (La Hoyada or Capitolio stations). It
is open to the public free of charge Tuesday to Friday from 9:00
a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday and
Sunday from10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
(0212) 545.98.28.
- Quinta Anauco Colonial Art Museum
The Quinta Anauco on Panteón Avenue, San Bernardino, in front
of the Hospital de Clínicas in Caracas, which witnessed the
lives and extinguishing of a line of marquises and the death of
Caracas’ Francisco Rodríguez del Toro, today exhibits
paintings, furnishings and religious objects that still show
signs of the aristocratic patina of the "well-born"
Creole.
- Sofía Imber Museum of Contemporary Art
Central Park.
- Museum of Fine Arts
Morelos Square, Los Caobos.
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Sites
of Historical Interest |
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National
Capitol
Two documentary testimonies: The Signing of the Act of
Independence and Tovar y Tovar’s epic mural painting have
witnessed this monument’s progression through its various
historical phases. The capitol is located at Universidad Avenue
and Este 2 on Bolívar Square in the city center.
Casa Amarilla (the Yellow House)
Urdaneta Avenue and the corner of Carmelita, next to the
post office. The rings, chains and bars embedded in the basement
walls of the Foreign Ministry bring to mind its original
function of Royal Prison. In the republican period, the Casa
Amarilla served as the Caracas City Hall Council House. It was
in its Capitular Chamber that on April 19, 1810, the will for
independence burst forth from the City Council, joined by the
Deputies elected by the people and a canon who that day emerged
from obscurity to become known as Father Madariaga, the last
Captain General.
Palace of Miraflores
Corner of Urdaneta Avenue and De Bolero to Miraflores.
Municipal Palace
The Municipal Council (as it is also called) has restored the
old Chapel of Santa Rosa School to its former appearance of
1811, when the Act of Independence was signed on July 5. Corner
of Los Monjes, on the southern side of Bolívar square.
Paseo Los Próceres (Avenue of the
Founding Fathers)
Santa Mónica Urbanization.
The House where the Liberator Simón
Bolívar was born
It is still furnished with the objects that belonged to him and
his family. The House is located on the corners of San Jacinto
and Traposo (next to the Bolivarian Museum) and can be reached
by metro (La Hoyada or Capitolio stations). The House may be
visited free of charge Tuesday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00
noon and from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
(0212) 545.98.28.
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Car
Rental
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Avis
C.C.C.T. Corner of Libertador Avenue and Principal Avenue, Bello
Campo.
(58-212) 261.11.35 /
65.80 / 73.80.
Budget
Luis Roche Avenue, Altamira.
(800-28.343)
(58-212) 264.66.66.
Hertz
Principal Avenue, El Bosque.
(58-212) 952.16.03 / 19.34.
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Emergency
telephone numbers |
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Central
Nacional de Emergencias (National Emergency Central Exchange)
(58-212) 171.
Defensa Civil (Civil Defense).
(58-212) 662.67.59 / 631.86.62.
Guardia Nacional: Comando Regional N°5. (National Guard:
Regional Command No. 5).
Páez Avenue, El Paraíso.
(58-212) 483.45.33 / 46.04 / 46.75 / 481.99.72.
Policía: Comandancia General (Police: General Headquarters).
(58-212) 860.88.21 / 58.71 / 552.75.11.
Metropolitan Police. Cotiza.
(58-212) 860.58.70 / 862.26.14.
PTJ (Legal Technical Police)
(58-212) 571.86.24.
Tránsito: Sec. Este. (Traffic Department: Eastern Sector)
(58-212) 257.33.16.
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