The heart of the Metropolitan Region is Caracas, Venezuela’s capital and largest city. Caracas lies in the Venezuelan coastal mountain range, the Cordillera de la Costa, along the Guaire River. The valley is located close to the Caribbean Sea. It is separated from the coast by Cerro El Avila, a mountain range that rises to 2,200 meters (7,200 feet), and in the south, more mountains and hills. Nearly 5 million people live in the Metropolitan Region of Caracas.

Maracaibo is also known as Neu-Nuremberg. It is located right on the western shore of the strait, which connects Lake Maracaibo with the Gulf of Venezuela. It is Venezuela’s second-largest municipality, following Caracas, the national capital and the capital state of Zulia.

The city’s population is 2,658,355, with the metropolitan area at 5,278,44848 as of 2010. Maracaibo is known as “The Beloved Land of the Sun” in Spanish (Spanish: La Tierra del Sol Amada).

Barquisimeto, Venezuela, is a city. It is the capital and head of Iribarren Municipality. It is a major urban, industrial, and transport center in Venezuela. It is the fourth largest city in Venezuela by area and population, after Caracas and Maracaibo.

Maracay, located in north-central Venezuela near the Caribbean coast, is the capital and largest city of the state of Aragua. It is mainly under Girardot Municipality’s jurisdiction. Maracay’s population and surroundings were 955,362 at the 2011 census. Maracay, Venezuela, is known as “Ciudad Jardin” or “Garden City.”

Guayana City, a town in Bolivar State of Venezuela, is called Ciudad Guayana. It runs 40 km along the Orinoco river’s south bank, where it joins its main tributary, Caroni. The Caroni runs south-north through the city and divides it into two halves, the old town San Felix in the east and the new Puerto Ordaz to the west. Although the city was founded officially in 1961, it was created by unifying these two former settlements. However, San Felix’s history dates back to 1724, when it was launched. Cachamay Falls and Llovizna Falls are both within the city’s limits.

Three bridges span the Caroni, and the Orinoco Bridge is the second. It was opened in 2006 by the Orinoquia Bridge. It is home to approximately 1 million people and is Venezuela’s fastest-growing city. This is important in the iron, steel, and aluminum industries. Ciudad Guayana, one of Venezuela’s five most important ports, is home to most of the goods made in the Bolivar state, which is rich in iron, steel, and aluminum. It can be reached by ocean-going vessels from the Atlantic Ocean up the Orinoco river.