Francisco Fajardo Highway
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The Francisco Fajardo Highway is the most important freeway of Caracas, connecting the west with the east of the city. The freeways of the country and a great number of avenues of Caracas, are not designated with a system of codification or numeration, there are designated with names of historical personages. In addition, in Caracas, the connections between freeways also usually have peculiar names, for example, of animals: the squid, the spider and the centipede.
The neuralgic freeway crosses the city from the west to the east, and its respective branches, that goes from Petare and connects with the Great Marshal of Ayacucho Highway (Petare-Guarenas section), and to the southwest of Caracas through La Paz neighborhood and finish in Las Adjuntas and Macarao, it has a subbranch that goes towards Caricuao. The main branches are the East Highway, that starts from the Centipede connection (in the Chacao Municipality) and finishes in the sector of La Trinidad, where begins the intercommunal avenue of El Hatillo, which finishes in La Lagunita neighborhood, and the second ramification is the one that goes towards the south of the city, with the name of Valle-Coche highway, that finishes in the connection with the Regional del Centro Highway, another branch represents the section that goes from Catia to the beginning of the Caracas-La Guaira Highway.
