Within the grid of square and rectangular city blocks of Nueva Caracas the plaza stands out, a radial roundabout, initially called Plaza Cataluña and later Plaza Las Orquídeas. In 1946, in honor of the Venezuelan poet, a bust of Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde (by Lorenzo González, undated and inscribed «Gariboldi») was placed there, in white marble, on a pedestal amid the tree-filled plaza and is renamed to the name it still has. This plaza, where eight streets converge in a cross with diagonals, is the hub of Catia activity and is attractive for its visual perspectives to the boulevard and to the Ávila.