Chimire is located about 10 miles (16 km) north of San Tomé on the road to Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela.
The area has good transport links and includes Cerro Negro de Kariñas, the location of the indigenous people in the Anzoategui State.
[4] Chimire covers around is about 2,000 acres (810 ha); the cliffs were formed by the erosive power of the constant rain in the area.
Alexander von Humboldt speculated that a sea platform covered the landmass of Venezuela to Paraguay during the lower and upper Cretaceous periods.
The geographer Paul Kamen Key Vila said a large river existed in north-central Venezuela during the Cretaceous periods.