Surface: 221.120 hectáreas.

Located: In the Caribbean Sea, is located the North franc of the central coast of Venezuela and to an approximated distance of 166 km (84 nautical miles) port of the Guaira (See the Map )

Access: For the Great Roque they regularly divide to flights charter from Maiquetia and the Margarita island. By the sea, it is possible to be arrived at the diverse keys to through private or rented boats.

Activities: In agreement with the zone, the allowed activities are the following zones:

• Zone of Handled Natural Atmosphere:To carry out in boat, to sail to candle or motor by the indicated routes, toilets to practice the sport fishing and to observe or to photograph nature.


• Marine Primitive Zone:In addition to the previous activities, it is allowed to practice swimming, snorkeling, the submarinismo, the hiking by the demarcated footpaths and the observation of the nature in nongreater groups of 15 people.


• zone of services.zone of recreations:In addition to the mentioned activities previously, also it is allowed to encamp, to practice nautical sports like the velerismo, the ski, etc .

Services and facilities: In the Great Roque is the runway and its adjacency, the Center of Attention to the Visitor where it is possible to be asked for information and permissions; the Supervision of INPARQUES, the office of the Unique Authority of Area, the position of the National Guard, the station of Coastguard vessel, the Inspectoría of fishing and the Police station; some supplies; a welfare position and telephones public. In addition, some training centers of Scuba diving and rent of equipment. Modest inns and others with more comforts, operated by tourist companies exist that, from the main cities of Venezuela, offer varied packages of lodging and excursions. The park has designated zones to encamp, but it must bring his carp and encamped equipment of. In certain hours they daily leave boats towards the keys.

Permission and fares: The Authority Only receive to national and international visitors a fares when entering the park. The following activities require of permissions sent by INPARQUES in the Center of Attention the Visitor: to encamp, to search and/or to visit the Marine Primitive Zone, to practice the submarinismo and the sport fishing.

From its conquers, diverse relations geographics designate archipielago with the names of Roca and Roques. Once the deposits of per them of Margarita, Coche and Cubagua exhaust the finders are centered in the Roques, obtaining very little to. Aside from explotation the salt mines, spaniards do not find reasons to maintain strong nexuses with archipilago that is frequent refuge of pirates. At the beginning of century XIX the inhabitants of the Dutch Antilles turn upside down to operate the lime of the chorales roque, so like manglares, of which they extract phosphates and guano for chemical installments; from the wood of mangle red they obtain carbon vegetal to use it like fuel; and of the crust, the tannin to tan skins. Of this mixture of influences spaniards, Dutch and English, originates a great part of singlares names of the islands: a root allusive to explotation of some raw matterial el suffix "ki", derivative of the inglish key, that as well el "key" of indians Arawacos Venezuelan.

As of 1910, the Dutch go being evacuated of the Roques and being replaced by margariteños fishermen in search of the lobster and botuto. Of the 60 in ahead, its production is commercialized in all Venezuela and Integra to the archipelago to the national economic life. The present population of the Roques concentrates itself in great majority in the Great Roque and is composed by a 25% of native margariteños. The Archipelago of nowadays looks for to conciliate its economic development with its condition of national park. Under certain regulations, it is sustained in the traditional advantage of his fishing resources and, thanks to the spectacularity of their landscape, the increasing tourist activity. It is the scene of the marine processions in honor to the Virgin of the Valley; of the colorful artisan fishing, an executed ritual each dawn by the fishermen and their children in the most modest conditions; and also the paradise where an endless number of tourists for splendid vacations concurs