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Confinanzas Financial Center

Caracas, Venezuela

The 618th tallest building in the world

171 m · 561 ft

Centro Financiero Confinanzas (English: Confinanzas Financial Center), also known as Torre de David (the Tower of David), is an unfinished abandoned skyscraper in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. It is the third highest skyscraper in the country after the twin towers of Parque Central Complex. The construction of the tower began in 1990 but was halted in 1994 due to the Venezuelan banking crisis. As of 2025, the building remains incomplete. It was damaged due to two earthquakes on 21 and 22 August 2018 and further damaged due to the two earthquakes on 24 June 2026.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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