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La Pastora, Caracas — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Two cenotaphs sit here. La Pastora is one of the 22 parishes of the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality in Caracas.
About La Pastora
Where to stay in La Pastora
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The Basilica of Santa Capilla sets the bearing for a stay. Beds in La Pastora leave the Cenotafio de Francisco de Miranda, the Cenotafio de Andrés Bello, and the Casa de Las Primeras Letras inside an easy circuit on foot. Caracas runs on around it. Pick the parish if the churches and cenotaphs are the point of the trip for you, not a central address.
About La Pastora
What are the main landmarks in La Pastora?
Churches and memorials make the list. The Basilica of Santa Capilla and Our Lady of Mercy Church give the parish two places of worship, and the Casa de Las Primeras Letras carries a name drawn from the teaching of first letters. Two cenotaphs follow.
The Cenotafio de Francisco de Miranda and the Cenotafio de Andrés Bello stand as monuments to two men commemorated within La Pastora.
What is the history of La Pastora?
Memory is the parish's business. Francisco de Miranda and Andrés Bello are each marked by a cenotaph in La Pastora, and the Casa de Las Primeras Letras carries forward the name of early literacy teaching. Churches came with the parish.
The Basilica of Santa Capilla and Our Lady of Mercy Church anchor that ecclesiastical past, and the parish keeps its place among the 22 that form the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality.
Where is La Pastora?
Parish lines do the dividing here. La Pastora is one of 32 such units in Caracas, and the Basilica of Santa Capilla stands inside its boundary.
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Updated September 2026