Cave of the owls, Show cave in Leoncio Prado Province, Peru

The Cueva de las Lechuzas opens in the Bella Durmiente mountain range of Tingo María National Park with an entrance 20 meters high and 25 meters wide. Its interior ceiling is coated in green, yellow and dark grey mineral deposits, with stalactites hanging above a reddish-brown earth floor. A wooden walkway with a crisscross railing crosses the cave, and guácharos and bats live inside.

The cave lies in the Bella Durmiente mountain range of Tingo María National Park, 6 km from the city of Tingo María, in the Mariano Damaso Beraún district of Leoncio Prado Province, Huánuco. Its entrance measures 20 m high and 25 m wide, and the cave sits at 673 m above sea level. It is inhabited by guácharos (oilbirds) and bats.

The cave is named for the owls (lechuzas) that gave it its local name, though the birds actually living inside are guácharos (oilbirds) and bats. The guácharo is a nocturnal fruit-eating bird that navigates by echolocation, and its presence is what visitors come to hear and see in the dark chambers.

The cave lies in Tingo María National Park, in the Bella Durmiente mountain range, 6 km from the city of Tingo María. Access is by road from the city; the entrance is 20 m high and 25 m wide, opening beneath an overhang hung with stalactites. Inside, a wooden walkway with a crisscross railing crosses the reddish-brown floor.

The cave is inhabited by guácharos (oilbirds) and bats, according to the sources; the guácharo is a nocturnal fruit-eating bird that navigates by echolocation. The entrance measures 20 m high and 25 m wide, and the cave lies 6 km from Tingo María in the La Bella Durmiente range of Tingo María National Park, at 673 m above sea level.