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Travel and Tourism in Venezuela
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Venezuela.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 4: Do Not Travel
- Time Difference
- UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Currency
- Venezuelan bolivar (VEB)
- Climate
- tropical; hot, humid; more moderate in highlands
- Language(s) Spoken
- Spanish (official) 98.2%, indigenous 1.3%, Portuguese 0.1%, other 0.4%
- Ethnic Groups
- unspecified Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, Indigenous
- National Holiday
- Independence Day, 5 July (1811)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 8 00 N, 66 00 W
- Location
- Northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, between Colombia and Guyana
- Airports
- 368
Destinations
Regions and cities, top sights, national parks, UNESCO sites, and festivals for visitors.
Canaima National Park
Canaima National Park is the context within which Angel Falls exists, and it is a destination of extraordinary magnitude in its own right. Covering approximately 30,000 square kilometers in southeastern Venezuela's Bolivar state, it is Venezuela's second largest national park and one of the largest protected areas on Earth. UNESCO designated it a World Heritage Site in 1994, recognizing what the inscription described as an "outstanding example of the major stages of the earth's evolutionary history" — and the tepui landscape does indeed represent something close to the beginning of that history.
The physical foundation of Canaima is the Guiana Shield — one of the oldest geological formations on Earth, a vast plateau of Precambrian rock that underlies much of northeastern South America and dates back approximately 1.7 billion years. When the supercontinent Gondwana began to break apart and the landscapes of South America were being sculpted by tectonic forces hundreds of millions of years ago, the Guiana Shield was already ancient.
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Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Medical care at private hospitals and clinics in Caracas and other major cities is generally good. Public, government-funded hospitals and clinics generally provide a lower level of care and basic supplies at public facilities may be in short supply or unavailable. Cash payment is usually required in advance of the provision of medical services at private facilities, although some facilities will accept credit cards. Patients who cannot provide advance payment may be referred to a public hospital for treatment.
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