National Park
National Park
Cave of the Wonder
It is located on the road between the town of SanPedro de Macorís and La Romana, close to the riverSoco and Cumayasa. It has 800 metres long and 25 metres under tierra.2has an area of 4.5 km2 and it was declared a national park on July 22,1997.3
Inside the cave you can see around 500 paintings on the walls and printsdominatedthe color black and red, made by the Taino Indians, ancientinhabitants of the islandalready extinct.
According to reports, the same account with 10 petroglyphs, i.e. recorded onrock, and 472 pictographs, or paintings on the walls. Of these 472pictographs 144 were catalogued as enigmatic or abstract and 69 of fancifulgroups of points. You can also see 135 pictographs with a human face, 18 ofanimal, human and animal form 41, geometric 18 and 38 geometric andhuman.
The attractions that offers wonderful cavern are: pictorial Gallery, the watermirror,which consists of an artificial lake that reflects like a mirror top caveand the large Panel, in the latter you can see a rock painting created by thetainos, which represents a ritual funeral, among others.
The variety of the flora includes 48 natural species of arraijanes guáyiga,yellow caya, guayacán, pegapalo, jasmine, nail of cat, Carboy, hen, blackcuba, prieta yaya, cimarron, sugar coffee stick donkey, pringamosa and sourpalo, among others.
The cave opens in geomorphological unit reef limestone known as Southeastern coastal plain.
In 1926 it was called cave Jaguar, and in the 1949 Professor FranciscoRichiez Acevedo assigned the name of cave of wonders by the beauty thatrevealed inside and everything visitors could imagine looking at figurescreated by stalactites and stalagmites, as well as its variety of pictographs.
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