The implantation and development of new methods aimed to assess the health status of coral reefs is a tenet core for the conservation science of these systems. For years, coral reefs communities have been described in Venezuela; however, no efforts to classify the health status of these systems have been accomplished. Part of the problem is that reefs have being always classified in terms of live coral cover, while other variables clearly linked with healthy reefs have been neglected. In this work, we aimed to assess the health status of 36 reef sites encompassing seven different geographical locations in Venezuela using a multivariate approach.