Venezuelan Capital District

The Capital District (Spanish: Distrito Capital) of Venezuela is a federal district corresponding to the capital Caracas. Within the federal system it shares the same rank as the states of Venezuela. It has an area of 433 km² and there is only one administrative division (municipio), Libertador, which contains the City of Caracas. The population in 2004 was 2,073,768. The District borders on the states of Vargas and Miranda.

Formerly it had its own local government with a governor, but the constitutional reform of 1999 abolished the district government and created instead the Metropolitan District of Caracas, with jurisdiction over the territory of the District and also four adjacent municipios (Baruta, Chacao, el Hatillo and Sucre) in Miranda.