Guácharo Cave
Good to know
- Best time to go
- December to April, dry season
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
Venezuela's most celebrated cave, a limestone gallery in the Caripe hills that shelters tens of thousands of oilbirds — the echolocating, fruit-eating guácharos first described to science by Humboldt here in 1799. Guided lantern tours enter the birds' clamorous first chamber and its formations.