Visit Cueva de las Maravillas, Dominican Republic

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The Parque nacional Cueva de las Maravillas (Cave of Wonders National Park) is a protected area in the eastern part of the island the Spanish, specifically in the area Caribbean country Dominican Republic. Named after the Cave of Wonders (until 1949 called Cueva Jagual) known for its ancient paintings by the Taino Indians. It is located on the road between the town of San Pedro de Macoris and La Romana, near the River Soco and Cumayasa. It is 800 meters long and is 25 meters underground has an area of 4.5 square kilometers and was declared a national park on 22 July 1997. Inside the cave you can see about 500 paintings and engravings on the walls where the black and red, made by the Tainos, the ancient inhabitants of the island extinct predominate. According to reports, it has 10 petroglyphs, rock engravings, and 472 pictographs, or paintings on the walls. Of these 472 144 pictographs were classified as enigmatic or abstract and whimsical groups 69 points. Also you can see pictographs with a human face 135 18 animal, 41 animal and human form, 18 and 38 geometric geometric and human. The attractions of the wonderful cave are pictographic, The Water Mirror Gallery, which is an artificial lake that reflects like a mirror the top of the cave and the Grand Panel, in the latter you can see a cave painting created by the Tainos, which represents a funeral ritual, among others. In the variety of flora species listed 48 natural arraijanes, guáyiga, yellow caya, lignum vitae, pegapalo, jasmine, cat's claw, jug, stick chicken, black Cuba, yaya brown, maroon coffee, cane juice, stick donkey, Pringamosa and bitter wood, among others. The cave is open in limestone reef belongs to the geomorphological unit known as South Eastern Coastal Plain. In 1926 he was called Cueva Jaguar, and in 1949 Professor Francisco Richiez Acevedo assigned the name of Cave of Wonders by the beauty revealing inside and everything visitors could imagine by looking at the figures created by the stalactites and stalagmites, as well as its wide variety of pictographs.

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