# Haitón del Guarataro

- **Country:** Venezuela
- **Depth:** 305 m
- **Length:** 640 m
- **Survey:** [http://www.braemoor.co.uk/caving/images/guarataro_survey.jpg BKRE 1973]
- **Geology:** Oligocene limestone
- **Hazards:** Verticality
- **Location:** Falcón State, Venezuela
- **Discovery:** April 1973
- **Elevation:** 1000 m
- **Map Width:** 256px
- **Photo Width:** 256px
- **Photo Caption:** Entrance shaft of Haitón del Guarataro
- **Entrance Count:** 1

The Haitón del Guarataro is a solutional cave system in the Sierra de San Luis in Falcón State, Venezuela, south-east of Curimagua. It is the deepest limestone cave in Venezuela, and the entrance is a tourist attraction within the Juan Crisóstomo Falcón National Park. A large entrance shaft in diameter leads via drops of , , and to a stream passage which follows the dip down for a distance of about to the north to where it eventually chokes. An upstream passage is intercepted which runs south for about to the base of a shaft. The cave has a depth of , and a total passage length of . It was first explored and surveyed in April 1973 by members of the Venezuela '73 British Karst Research Expedition. It is formed in Oligocene reefal limestone.

![Photo of Haitón del Guarataro](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Entrance_to_Haiton_del_Guarataro.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitón_del_Guarataro (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)