Caracas, the Great Birthplace of El Libertador!

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Caracas Steps to the Future with a Lion's Heart!

Caracas the capital city of Venezuela, the biggest city in the country and one of Latin America's powerful economic centres has lived threatening phenomena since its establishment five centuries ago. One of the threats in the nineteen century could repeat itself because of the recent threats of climate change.

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Santiago de leon de Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

The history of the city as the entire Latin Americas was one of the toughest histories on earth.

It presents an excellent example to the international revolution that has been influenced specially in Latin America, through history up to the present days, by both the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.

As the prosperity of Latin America is the favour of that historical hard struggle, Caracas now steps into the future with a lion's heart and well-planned fundamental economical schemes.

After having chased the indigenous population out of their beautiful valley, the Spanish conquistadors founded Caracas on 25 July 1567 between the green coastal mountains or the Cordillera de la Costa in Spanish.

In the northernmost part of South America and around two hundred years later, the city was the birthplace of "El Libertador", the popular name of Simon Bolivar, who led the liberation movement with Jose de San Martin and indicated the separation of modern Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Panama from Spain.

War of Independence ended with a victory over the Spaniards in 24 June 1821 with Bolivar's victory. Already ten years earlier had Bolivar and his veteran followers attempted to declare independence in Caracas.

The city was destroyed before that victory by an earthquake, which literally transformed the entire valley to a cemetery in 26 March 1812. The Spanish crown thought of it as a divine punishment for the rebellion against the Crown.

The more prosaic, but the tragic fact is that the quake caused landslides that sent thousands of tons of loose soil and rocks from the steep slopes into the valley. It was a phenomenon, which could repeat itself not only due to earthquakes, but also because of torrential rains.

Today there live about 4.3 million people in Caracas. Approximately two million of them live in poorly built shantytowns or "barrios" on the slopes around the town, and here's landslide triggered by torrential rain, which is a constant problem.

This is in spite of the economical growth because of the flourish of the Venezuelan oil industry that makes the country rich and the new constructed capital with many skyscrapers in recent decades throughout the 1940s up to now.

The modern planning of the capital city in addition to the architecture and art works done by the Venezuelan architect, Carlos Raul Villanueva changed the city to a great metropolitan in Latin America.

The UNSCO has chosen the Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas, built during 1940-1960 to be included in the World Heritage List as masterpiece of modern architecture and an outstanding example of the modern movement in architecture. Goethe said once, "Architecture is frozen music". It seems as if he saw the future of Caracas' architecture.

However, the threatening natural disasters are great. One the worst natural disasters in the American continents in 1999 killed about 30,000 people, during several days of torrential rain that triggered severe flooding, landslides and mud avalanches in coastal zones on the northern slopes of the Cordillera de la Costa, just north of Caracas.

In the future, and in this tropical savannah climate it is expected that extreme weather phenomena like hurricanes and torrential rain will hit the region around Caracas and the Cordillera de la Costa, far more frequently and with much greater strength.

It is not only the people who live in shantytowns, who may see these gloomy prospects in the eyes. Floods, landslides and mud avalanches can be a serious threat to Caracas' city center and make a massive blow to the infrastructure in Venezuela's capital and its suburbs.

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