Description

Located in the southeast of Haiti (in the Jacmel valley), more specifically in Parc de la Visite, the Marie Louise Boumba cave is 262 m deep and 938 m long. It was recently discovered, by French speleologists, between February 11th and 13th, 2013. This cave of extraordinary beauty is like an open door to another world and offers those who visit it a spectacle worthy of a fairy tale. It features magnificent huge galleries beautifully eroded and an underground river flowing inside adding a magical charm. However, its route is quite difficult due to its depth and its many vertical passages. 

Biodiversity

Marie Louise’s cave is rich in natural treasures: stalactites, immaculate underground sculptures, calcite curtains colored in warm orange tones. It cannot be described in any other way than in terms of geological splendor when one considers, for example, the magnificent and fragile limestone jewels that the water, drop by drop, has chiseled out, but also its beautiful waterfalls and canyons where the water it has carved its way through a 70-meter-thick layer of limestone. It is also a refuge for an abundant cave-dwelling microfauna and bats, animals essential for biodiversity. 

Ecotourism potential

According to Erol Josué, general director of the ethnology office, Haitian caves are inhabited by the spirits of our ancestors, guardians of tradition. Meeting places and symbiosis between the Arawak, Caribbean and African Indians, the caves served as a hiding place and a space for the transmission of knowledge. Marie Louise’s cave is rich in natural treasures that can satisfy the curiosity of visitors eager for geological discovery, such as stalactites, pristine underground cultures, and orange sheets of calcite. This cave also has a magnificent underground ecosystem that could delight visitors.