Guacharo

I went spelunking with friends a few years back at the Guacharo Caves in the Caripe Mountains in Monagas.

Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

I went spelunking with friends a few years back at the Guacharo Caves in the Caripe Mountains in Monagas.

Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

I went spelunking with friends a few years back at the Guacharo Caves in the Caripe Mountains in Monagas.

Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010

The Indians go into the Guacharo cavern once a year, in the middle of summer, and destroy the greater number of the nests in it with long poles.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

To go down into the Guacharo signifies in their language to die.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

He also climbed to the summit of the Tumiriquiri, and went down into the Guacharo cavern, the entrance to which, framed as it is with the most luxuriant vegetation, is truly magnificent.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

This fat, known under the name of the Guacharo oil or butter, is half-liquid, transparent, without smell, and so pure that it can be kept a year without turning rancid.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

[* Called Los pollos del Guacharo.] [* La cosecha de la manteca.]

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

That which confers most celebrity on the valley of Caripe, besides the extraordinary coolness of its climate, is the great Cueva, or Cavern of the Guacharo.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Before we quit the subterranean rivulet and the nocturnal birds, let us cast a last glance at the cavern of the Guacharo, and the whole of the physical phenomena it presents.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851