Today's testing and measurement website hotspot is Caracas.
More accurately, Venezuela's capital and largest city is named Santiago de León de Caracas, and has a population around 3 million people in the Caracas metropolitan area. The city sits between 700 and over 900 metres above sea level, despite being fairly close to the Caribbean sea.
The modern city was founded in 1567 by Spanish captain Don Diego de Losada, five years after the first failed attempt by another Spanish Captain to settle the area. There were, of course, indigenous people here already, who destroyed the first settlement but not the second. A declaration of independence was signed in Caracas in 1811, but it took a decisive victory over royalist forces in 1821 to secure independence for Venezuela.
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