It is located in the Caribbean Sea 20 km to the NNE off the northern shore of La Guaira.

[3] Currents create an upwelling of nutrients that attracts large pelagic fish such as sailfish, marlin, yellowfin tuna and mahi-mahi.

[4] The La Guaira Bank is a Pleistocene structure that is wholly submerged.

Its depths range between 60 and 70 m, rising from the 260 m deep surrounding seabed of the continental platform.

[5] La Guaira Bank is located close to the Carayaca Bank (Spanish: Placer de Carayaca), another structure that rises between 50 and 100 m from the surface.