The region is predominantly a plain dominated by a tropical jungle in which there are numerous pipes and rivers, there are areas of mangrove forests.

The San Juan River is the main watercourse of the municipality, there is also the Caño de Ajíes and the asphalt lake of Guanoco.

It offers numerous attractions for adventure tourism, with its immense wetlands, the asphalt lake of Guanoco, the great San Juan river, the mangrove forests, the breeding of buffaloes, the virgin forests, and picturesque sites such as the Antonio Díaz ravine, with its limestone bed in which there are fossils of scholars and gastropods of great interest to geology.

Of the very old tribes of the Guaraunos, their representatives are to the south of Guariquen, and samples of their work are exhibited in the Casa de la Cultura del Pilar.

In Europe, the flavor of Venezuelan cocoa was already known, and particularly that of the Gulf of Paria, so at the time of the Spanish colony the first cocoa haciendas and exports of cocoa and other products were undertaken through the port of Carúpano, years later its Corsican, Italian and German landowners and merchants; among them Cristino Wietstruck Lichtenberg opened the trade routes, developed agriculture and increased exports by building civil works to facilitate operations taking advantage of the fact that the municipality is very commercial due to its natural and strategic position that allows river communication having access to the sea through the Gulf of Paria and the Orinoco Delta by the Caño de Ajíes, it is also close to two main ports, Carúpano and Cumaná.