Cueva de la Arena

View from inside a cave looking out over a calm body of water, framed by rocky walls and lush greenery.

The Cueva de la Arena, in the Los Haitises National Park, is one of the most important points of interest in this protected area. It can only be reached by boat, from a small landing stage that plunges into the sea from its small, charming beach. The cave is some 940 m long, running along the cliffs of the Samaná Bay coastline.

This magnificent cave was used by the Taino Indians and decorated with their pre-Columbian art, of which twenty-two pictographs, six petroglyphs and two bas-reliefs have survived to the present day.

The bas-reliefs in the form of a human head can already be seen at the entrance.

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