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Los Caobos, Caracas — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Museums ring the park. Los Caobos surrounds one of the oldest parks in Caracas, with the National Art Gallery and the Caracas Athenaeum close by.
About Los Caobos
Where to stay in Los Caobos
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Gallery days argue for this address. A room in Los Caobos leaves the Caracas Museum of Fine Arts, the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas, and the Caracas Museum of Natural Sciences within a walk across the park, with the Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex on the same round. The Caracas Athenaeum is nearby.
Base here if concerts and exhibitions shape your days more than shopping streets do.
About Los Caobos
What are the main landmarks in Los Caobos?
Collections cluster here. The Caracas Museum of Fine Arts, the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas, and the National Art Gallery stand within reach of one another, and the Caracas Museum of Natural Sciences adds a scientific holding to that run of galleries. The Caracas Athenaeum joins them.
Smaller names fill in around the park: the Guaicaipuro monument, the Iglesia de San Charbel, and The Sephardic Museum of Caracas.
What is the history of Los Caobos?
Age is the park's claim. Caobos Park counts among the oldest parks of Caracas, and the institutions gathered around it, the Caracas Museum of Fine Arts, the National Art Gallery, and the National Experimental University of the Arts, made Los Caobos a quarter of cultural addresses. The Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex stands near.
The Guaicaipuro monument carries a personal name into the district's public space.
Where is Los Caobos?
Parkland sits at the middle. Los Caobos takes its shape from Caobos Park, with the Boulevard Amador Bendayan and the district's cultural buildings near its margin.
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Updated September 2026