{{Short description|Federal district of Venezuela}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Capital District | image_flag = Flag of Caracas (2022).svg | flag_link = Flag of Caracas | image_shield = Coat of arms of Caracas (2022).png | image_map = Capital District in Venezuela.svg | coordinates = {{coord|10.473056|-66.995556|region:VE|display=inline,title}} | area_total_km2 = 433 | population_total = 3523959 | population_as_of = 2020 | population_footnotes = | population_density_sq_mi = auto | seat_type = Capital | seat = Caracas | leader_party = PSUV | leader_title = Head of Government of the Capital District | leader_name = Nahum Fernández | blank2_name_sec1 = HDI (2019) | blank2_info_sec1 = 0.757<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/VEN/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0|title=Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab|website=hdi.globaldatalab.org|access-date=2021-07-31}}</ref><br/>{{color|#0c0|high}} · 1st | website = https://www.gdc.gob.ve | leader_title4 = Assembly delegation | leader_name4 = }}
The '''Capital District''' ({{langx|es|Distrito Capital}}) is a federal district of Venezuela. It has an area of {{Convert|433|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} and there is only one administrative division (''municipio''), Libertador, which contains about half of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital city, which is also the seat of the three branches of the federal government of Venezuela. The population in 2004 was 2,073,768. The district borders the states of Vargas and Miranda.
==Government== {{main|Head of the Government of the Distrito Capital}} 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 which all together form the city.
On 13 April 2009, the National Assembly passed a law creating the figure of a head of government for the district which would be designated by the President.<ref>Official Gazette, 14 April 2009, {{in lang|es}} [http://150.188.8.226/cgi-win/be_alex.exe?Documento=T020700036341/1&Nombrebd=bibconsulta&term_termino_2=\192.168.215.23/pgr/alexandr/db/bibpgr/edocs/2009/39157.pdf&term_termino_3=&term_termino_5=pdf&term_termino_4=%201&ForReg=http://150.188.8.226/recursos/gaceta.asp&TiposDoc=S Official announcement]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> On 14 April 2009, Jacqueline Faría became the first Head of Government of the Capital District.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abn.info.ve/noticia.php?articulo=177609&lee=10 |title = The World of Supernatural Beings - Alternative Belief News| date=June 2015 }}</ref> During the 2017 Venezuelan protests, General Antonio José Benavides Torres of the National Guard was appointed to be the Head of Government of the Capital District by disputed President Maduro.<ref>{{cite news|title=Himno Nacional, Alma Llanera y sana PAZ sin órganos de represión: Marcha nocturna honró a los caídos en sede OEA|url=https://www.lapatilla.com/site/2017/06/21/himno-nacional-alma-llanera-y-sana-paz-sin-organos-de-represion-marcha-nocturna-honro-a-los-caidos-en-sede-oea/|access-date=22 June 2017|work=La Patilla|date=21 June 2017|language=es-ES}}</ref>
==Municipality== *Libertador (Caracas)
== Demographics == === Race and ethnicity === According to the 2011 Census, the racial composition of the population was:<ref name=Census2011>{{cite web|url=http://www.ine.gob.ve/documentos/Demografia/CensodePoblacionyVivienda/pdf/nacional.pdf|title=Resultado Básico del XIV Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2011 (Mayo 2014)|page=29|publisher=Ine.gov.ve|access-date=8 September 2015}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;" |- ! Racial composition !! Population !! % |- | White || style="text-align:right;"|1,079,892 || style="text-align:right;"|51.2 |- | Mestizo || {{n/a}} || style="text-align:right;"|44.3 |- | Black || style="text-align:right;"|69,602 || style="text-align:right;"|3.3 |- | Other races || {{n/a}} || style="text-align:right;"|1.2 |}
==See also== *States of Venezuela
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category-inline|Distrito Capital (Venezuela)}}
{{Administrative divisions of Venezuela}} {{Capital districts and territories}} {{MunicipiosCaracas}} {{Divisions of Caracas}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Capital District (Venezuela) * *Capital district Category:Geography of Caracas
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