Metropolitan Region of Caracas (MRC) or Greater Caracas (GC) (Spanish: Región Metropolitana de Caracas; RMC or Gran Caracas; GC) is the urban agglomeration comprising the Metropolitan District of Caracas and the adjacent 11 municipalities over Miranda and Vargas state in Venezuela. Thus, it does not constitute a single administrative unit. The conurbation spreads south, west, east and north of Caracas.[5] It has a population of 5,243,301.
Geography
Metropolitan divisions
The Metropolitan Region of Caracas consists of five distinct metropolitan divisions/conurbations, subdividing the region into five divisions.[6][7]
Satellite image of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas and its conurbations at night and its conurbations
References
^Vila, Marco Aurelio. Área Metropolitana de Caracas. Ediciones del Cuatricentenario de Caracas.
^Barrios, Sonia (May 2001). "Áreas metropolitanas:¿qué ha cambiado?: La experiencia de la Caracas Metropolitana" [Metropolitan areas: what has changed? The experience of Metropolitan Caracas]. EURE (in Spanish). 27 (80). doi:10.4067/S0250-71612001008000004.
^Lisio, Antonio De (2009). "La Metrópoli Caraqueña: Expansión Simplificadora O Articulación Diversificante" [The Caracas metropolis: simplifying expansion or diversifying articulation]. Terra. Nueva Etapa (in Spanish). XXV (38): 191–225.
^Itriago, Rosangel Alvarez (2007). Redefinición del ámbito político-territorial de caracas: lo técnicamente deseable vs. Lo políticamente viable (PDF). XXVI Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología. Guadalajara: Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología.
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