Venezuela’s Regions — a note

Comparison

⚠ A WARNING ROW. Venezuela runs from Caribbean coast to Amazon and its food follows the landscape, not the 23 states. The CARIBBEAN COAST and its islands — seafood, coconut, plantain. The CENTRAL-NORTH, where most people live, around Caracas and the Valles del Tuy. The ANDES of Mérida, Táchira and Trujillo — potatoes, wheat, dairy, trout, and a cold-country kitchen unlike anywhere else in the country. ZULIA and Lake Maracaibo, which is its own world. The LLANOS — cattle and open fire. GUAYANA and the Orinoco. And AMAZONAS and the DELTA. ⚠ CARACAS IS A CAPITAL DISTRICT, not a state, and the Federal Dependencies are the offshore islands.