The Single Corridor That Keeps a Capital Alive | Venezuela

Every glass of water in Caracas was pumped a thousand meters uphill to get there. That single fact is the key to how this city works: a capital of several million people, sealed in a mountain valley nearly a kilometer above the Caribbean, with a river it cannot drink and almost no land to grow its own food. So everything climbs. Its imports come up one road from the port of La Guaira. Its water is lifted from the lowlands by pumps that draw close to a tenth of all the electricity in Venezuela — power carried five hundred kilometers from a single distant dam. Each lifeline holds up the next, and when one fails, the whole city feels it. In this documentary, discover how Caracas actually works — the highway corridor, the inverted aqueduct, the metro, the food trucks, and the one far-off dam that quietly keeps the taps running. Take a breath. Stay a while. This is the hidden machinery of a capital in the sky. ▶ See More Systems Documentaries: SINGAPORE:    • How a City With No Water of Its Own Became...   ▶ Subscribe:    / @wiredearth4k   #Venezuela #Caracas #Documentary #WorldsinMotion #SouthAmerica #Infrastructure #TravelDocumentary