The Tayos Cave – ECUADOR

4 November 2022

A group of tourists walks inside the Tayos Cave.

The Tayos Caves lie deep in the south-eastern region of Ecuador’s Amazonian rainforest, in the foothills of the Andes, within one of the richest areas for biodiversity in the world. Stretching to over 5km of underground passages and cathedral-like caverns, Cueva de los Tayos is home not only to the rare and extraordinary Tayos birds that give the cave their name but is a site of powerful spiritual value to its Shuar tribe guardians.