South America
Ecuador
Morona-Santiago Province

Cueva de los Tayos

Cueva de los Tayos is a located on the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains in the Morona-Santiago province of . It owes its name to being the home of the native nocturnal birds called tayos, which live in numerous caves in the Andean jungles of South America.
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  • Type: Cave
  • Description: cave in Ecuador
  • Also known as: “Cueva de los Tayos de Coangos”
  • Address: Limón Indanza, Coangos, Morona-Santiago Province 140605
  • Wheelchair access: no

Cueva de los Tayos

Latitude
-3.05208° or 3° 3′ 8″ south
Longitude
-78.20536° or 78° 12′ 19″ west
Elevation
539 metres (1,768 feet)
Operator
Zona administrada por los indígenas shuar
Open location code
6783WQXV+5V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4216106310
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cave_entrance
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q5192642
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Cueva de los Tayos” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كهف دي لوس تايوس”
  • Catalan: “Cova dels Tayos”
  • Croatian: “Cueva de los Tayos”
  • Czech: “Cueva de los Tayos”
  • Dutch: “Cueva de los Tayos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كويفا دى لوس تايوس”
  • French: “Cueva de los Tayos”
  • Hungarian: “Cueva de los Tayos”
  • Hungarian: “Tayos barlang”
  • Italian: “Cueva de los Tayos”
  • Polish: “Cueva de los Tayos”
  • Portuguese: “Cueva de los Tayos”
  • Spanish: “Cave of the Oilbirds”
  • Spanish: “Cueva de los tayos”
  • Spanish: “Cueva de los Tayos”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cueva de los Tayos”. Photo: MezzoforteF, CC BY-SA 3.0.