# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-brewer-carias
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:41:37.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-brewer-carias"
name: "Charles Brewer-Carías"
slug: "charles-brewer-carias"
description: "Charles Brewer-Carías is a Venezuelan explorer and naturalist. Known as the \"Humboldt of the twentieth century\", Brewer-Carías has led more than 200 expeditions to remote parts of the Venezuelan Guayana, particularly the tepuis of the region. His discoveries include the sink holes of Cerro Sarisariñama and the world's largest known quartzite cave, Cueva Charles Brewer. In 1982, Charles invented a survival knife."
tagline: "Venezuelan explorer and naturalist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.57
  momentum:             15.94683369238543
  historical:           5.491002666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brewer-Car%C3%ADas"
    title: "Charles Brewer-Carías"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "تشارلز بريوير كارياس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brewer-Car%C3%ADas"
    title: "Charles Brewer-Carías"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brewer-Car%C3%ADas"
    title: "Charles Brewer-Carías"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brewer_Car%C3%ADas"
    title: "Charles Brewer Carías"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Brewer-Car%C3%ADas"
    title: "Charles Brewer-Carías"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1063809"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump