Caracas or Carracas (72), the cap. of Venezuela, stands at an altitude 3000 ft. above the level of the sea; subject to earthquakes, in one of which (1812) 12,000 perished, and great part of the city was destroyed; it contains the tomb of Bolivar.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Caracalla * Caracci