The Guácharo Cave National Park is located 12 km from the town of Caripe, Monagas, Venezuela.
Cave mouth
Oilbirds
The cave inside
Alexander von Humboldt
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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian
Cueva del Guácharo National Park
…in Caripe and missions in the surrounding areas, they used the oilbird fat harvested from the cave in order to cook their meals. In 1799, scientist Alexander von Humboldt visited the cave during his scientific expedition in the Americas. His accounts of the visit as well as the various data he collected there form the…
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler (1843)
Schloss Tegel, Berlin, where Alexander and his brother Wilhelm lived for several years
Schiller, Wilhelm, and Alexander von Humboldt with Goethe in Jena
Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1806