Caracas
Worth seeing in and around Caracas
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University City of Caracas
Main campus of the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas
1.3 km · Wikipedia - 02
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Caracas
- Airports
- Maiquetía Simón Bolívar (CCS), 18 km · Arturo Michelena (VLN), 121 km · Flamingo (BON), 237 km
- Stations
- Metro Plaza Venezuela, 900 m · Metro Petare, 7.9 km · Libertador Simón Bolívar Terminal, 8.7 km · Metro Caño Amarillo, 5.3 km · Metro Capitolio, 4.6 km
- Valencia → Caracas128 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · $14–19
- Barcelona → Caracas7495 km · quickest by air, 16h 53m · €970–1,490
- Barquisimeto → Caracas275 km · quickest by air, 4h 10m · $140–220
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Caracas
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Caracas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe ubiquitous minibuses, or por puestos, run along many main roads in Caracas, often ending up in obscure residential neighborhoods that are not accessible by metro.
From Wikivoyage: Caracas, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Caracas – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Caracas
Caracas is 8 km from Petare, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Petareparish of Venezuela6.9 km
- Captaincy General of Venezuelaadministrative district within the Spanish Empire (1777–1834)6.1 km
- Libertador Municipalitymunicipality in the Capital District, Venezuela4.3 km
- Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Barutahuman settlement in Venezuela2.2 km
- Parroquia 23 de Eneroquarter and civil parish (parroquia) in Caracas, Venezuela6.1 km
- La Vegacivil parish (parroquia) in Libertador municipality, Capital District, Venezuela7.7 km