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One of the most interesting Caves in the American Continent.

The Guacharo Cave, located north of Monagas State, on the Eastern Mountain Range of Venezuela, 4 kilometers from the Village known as Caripe del Guacharo, is the largest cavern of its kind in the country and is considered to be amongst the most interesting on the Continent.

It was decreed a Notional Monument in 1949 and named after Alexander Van Humboldt, in honor of the German scientist that explored it in 1799, reaching the point of the giant stalagmite known as The Castle and was decreed a National park in 1975.

The surface of the Guacharo Cave is of 63.200 hectares and it is composed of two sectors, the Cerro Negro (Block Mountain) with a surface of 15.000 hectares and the Cuenca Media del Rio Caripe (the middle basin of the Caripe River), with a surface of 47.200 hectares.

It consists of diverse spaces which are coiled solons and galleries, these offer a diversity of forms and shapes that hang from the roof, originated by crystalline stalactites of different sizes that look like hanging crystals and stalagmites cloaks of diverse and beautiful shapes, vaults in the shope of leafs with specific characteristics that make them different from each other: rocky structures that hinder the passage of sound waves in some cases and other structures mode of cloy like walls through which the river runs and where fish that are characteristic of the Cave, may be observed.

The cave is inhabited by a bird known as the Guacharo (Steatornis Caripiensis), that due to its intolerance to light inhabits the Cave during the day and comes out in flocks at sunset, offering on extraordinary sight to whomsoever is lucky enough to see it.