Greens and blues with a peculiar high contrast, always clear and shining; a land almost completely virgin, distinguished by an enormous white sand beach extension of coralline origin; and a population willing to offer its best care to visitors are the permanent hosts of Los Roques Archipelago.

With more than 30 years since this National Park was decreed (1972), Los Roques is located at about 166 km (84 marine miles) north of Venezuela’s central coast. It holds more than 40 keys (“cayo” in Spanish) and islands, 300 sand banks and a great amount of coralline reefs occupying, roughly, 221,120 hectares.

The reef complex is delimited within a coralline barrier of 36 kilometers length in East-West course and 24.60 kilometers north-south. Because of its extension and preservation, Los Roques Archipelago is one of the most important coralline communities of the Caribbean.

Of the islands, the one of greater surface is El Gran Roque, it comprises most of the services offered by this Caribbean paradise and also guarantees a suitable infrastructure to receive tourists without losing its almost virgin condition, protected by the regulations that a National Park embraces.