Location: South America
Capital: Caracas (3.500.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Maracaibo, Barquisimeto, Valencia, San Cristobal, Ciudad Bolivar, Barcelona, Maracay, Merida
Population: 24,170,000
Area: 912,050 km2
Coin: 1 bolívar = 100 céntimos
Languages: Spanish
Religions: Roman Catholic
The Independence's Year: 1821
Mountains:Sierra de Perijà,Cordillera de Merida (Pico Bolivar5007 m.)
Rivers: Orinoco, Meta, Apure

The country is characterized by a surprising variety of environments and landscapes.
In fact its territory is placed in the zone of contact of 4 different macro areas: Andean one; that of the llanos of the Orinoco, alluvial wide lowland; that of the Massive of the Guayana and that Caribbean, close to a costs heat damp strongly inhabited and where are placed all the principal towns.
Among them: Caracas, one of the greatest metropolises of the Latin America, placed in a valley on the bottom of the Mont Avila in the Cordillera Litoral.It extends as a 25 kilometers long strip with modern big skyscrapers and immense hut quarters.
The territory, that sweeps from the lagoon of Maracaibo, to the Andean high tops, with tops superior than 5.000 meters in the Cordillera of Merida, to the wide plains of the Orinoco (immense river basin). It is made precious by the area of the Big Sabana with the Angel Falls and by the wonderful islands of the small Venezuelan Antilles, as the Island Margarita and that heaven of sea called Los Roques.