Tunqui Cueva

Useful Information

Location:	106, Chontabamba 19210. Located at Highway 106 east of Chontabamba. Southwest of Oxapampa city. (-10.6061246, -75.4296177)
Open:	All year daily 8-17. [2025]
Fee:	Adults PEN 4. [2025]
Classification:	Karst Cave
Light:	torch provided
Dimension:	A=1,840 m asl.
Guided tours:	self guided
Photography:	allowed
Accessibility:	no
Bibliography:	Vanessa Schaus Zevallos (2013): Tunqui Cueva, . pdf
Address:	Tunqui Cueva, Familia Osorio, 106 Chontabamba 19210, Oxapampa, Tel: +51-.
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History

2010	Oxapampa-Asháninka-Yánesha Biosphere Reserve recognized by UNESCO.

Description

Tunqui Cueva (Tunqui Cave) is probably the best developed show cave in Peru. It is located right at the highway and easy to access, there are wooden signs and a car park. A new block house is ticket office and souvenir shop. Beneath the cave tours it offers zip line and camping. The cave is a spacious through-cave, and there are many vertical parts, so the trail is actually a series of staircases. The cave has no electric light, the cave is actually a cave ruin and the short passage is illuminated by daylight from both sides. We nevertheless recommend bringing a torch. Unfortunately the daylight also means growth of moss and other plants, and so the speleothems are overgrown and generally in a bad shape.

The name Tunqui is derived from the fact that the cave was a nesting place for local birds named cock-of-the-rock. They still frequent the cave, but as it is visited by many people, the number is much smaller now. There are also some bats in the cave.