Fifty-five caves north of San Cristóbal holding roughly 6,000 drawings, carvings and pictographs, which makes this the biggest body of rock art in the Caribbean. Birds, fish, reptiles and human figures, drawn in charcoal mixed with animal fat, about 2,000 years old, made mostly by Taíno people with earlier work by Kalinago and Igneri. The humidity that makes the caves uncomfortable is exactly what preserved the pigment. The threat is limestone quarrying next door, which is why the Cuevas de Borbón anthropological reserve was enlarged around them in 1996 and folded into the national protected-areas system. Nearly 8,000 years of pre-contact Caribbean history is readable here.
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