The Coat of Arms of Capital District or Caracas consists on a rampant brown lion, that holds with its claws a golden (yellow) scallop loaded with the Saint James Cross in Gules (red), all embellished with a coronet with five points in gold as timmer, on a silver field, holding in its arms a golden lode (it looks more like a shell, and that is ho its depicted in the City Hall's Stationery), adorned with war trophies.

A golden pennants: the first like war voice on the crest loads the name with which was founded the City "SANTIAGO DE LEON DE CARACAS (Saint James of Lion of Caracas) and the year of its foundation: 1567

On March 15th, 1776, King Charles III of Spain, through a Royal Cedula, conceded Caracas the right to wear a border which read: "Ave Maria Purisima, Sin Pecado Concebida en el Primer Instante de su Ser Natural" (more or less: "Holiest Mary, Conceived Free of Sin on the First Instant of Her Natural Being"). Mary is the matron of Caracas.

The Caracas' Coat of Arms have been versioned sometimes maintaining its main heraldic elements.