Photo: R.C. Flores-Gunkle

A Cavern in the Sky

Far above and deep inside Puerto Rico

Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle
SNAPSHOTS
Published in
4 min readDec 4, 2022

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Virtually all of the 2000 or so caves in the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico are — no surprise — underground. But there is one, Cueva Ventana (Window Cave), in a mogote in the karst country that is far above ground.

I heard about it from one of my adventurous friends when I was editing a tourism magazine many years ago. I was editor, but my…

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Ronald C. Flores-Gunkle
SNAPSHOTS

An aged humanist hanging on to the idea that there is hope for humankind against most current indications.