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Caracas (officially Santiago de León de Caracas) is both capital and the largest city of Venezuela, located in the northern part of the country. 

At the time of the founding of the city, more than four hundred years ago, the valley of Caracas was populated by indigenous peoples. Francisco Fajardo, the son of a Spanish captain and a Guaiqueri cacica, attempted to establish a plantation in the valley in 1562 after founding a series of coastal towns. Fajardo's settlement did not last long. It was destroyed by natives of the region led by Terepaima and Guaicaipuro. This was the last rebellion on the part of the natives. On 25 July 1567, Captain Diego de Losada laid the foundations of the city of Santiago de León de Caracas. The foundation −1567 – “I take possession of this land in the name of God and the King” These were the words of Don Diego de Losada in founding the city of Caracas on 25 July 1567. In 1577 Caracas became the capital of the Spanish Empire's Venezuela Province under Governor Juan de Pimentel (1576–1583). Thank you, Luis :)

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Kama merú Falls is located in Canaima National Park, a park in south-eastern Venezuela that borders Brazil and Guyana.About 65% of the park is occupied by plateaus of rock called tepuis, which are a kind of plateau of millions of years old, with vertical walls and almost flat tops. One of these you is depicted on the card.Their sheer cliffs and waterfalls (including Angel Falls, which is the highest waterfall in the world) create spectacular landscapes. In 1994, the Canaima National Park was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, as a natural reserve that has abrupt relief special and unique around the world, the tepuis. Thank you, Luis!

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Now it's time for a summer view, a wonderful surprise from Luis that I received some days ago. I've already written about Los Roques archipelago, so I'll let you enjoy this beautiful view from Venezuela.

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Los Roques archipelago is a federal dependency of Venezuela consisting of approximately 350 islands, 42 coral cays surrounding a shallow central lagoon of 400 km², two barrier reefs and 300 sand banks, islands and cays. Because of the wide variety of seabirds and rich aquatic life, the Venezuelan government declared Los Roques a National Park in 1972. Seems like an amazing place! Would love to visit!

El Gran Roque is the only populated island in the group, with only about 1,500 permanent inhabitants. However, it receives approximately 70,000 visitors a year.

A stamp comemmorating two hundred years since independence of Venezuela (1811) was used. Thanks, Luis, for new country in my collection!