DailyCelestialChallenge / Monday-Darkness. (cave of the guacharo)

In the Northeast region, in the Monagas State, there is one of the most imposing and important natural monuments of Venezuela: the famous Cave of the Guacharo, In a country lover of the marvelous, a cave where a river is born and that is inhabited by thousands of nocturnal birds, whose fat is used in Misiones to season their food is an inexhaustible object of talks and discussions ".

The cave was used by the Chaimas 3000 years before our era. As guardians of the cave, they considered it as a "fat mine", because inside it was the fat that was used to prepare food and to give life to the torches that protected them from darkness and cold . In front of the cave there is a beautiful waterfall that represents a nice place to share with the family. The route is also done by a road that is inside the mountain.

One of the outstanding features of this monument is that it serves as a habitat for the Guácharo Steatornis caripensis, a bird of nocturnal habits adapted to live in darkness, which only leave the cave in twilight and nocturnal hours when they go out in search of food. Also live in this ecosystem some bats, insects, rodents, arachnids and coleoptera.