Main caves in the province of Cádiz and surroundings



Sistema del Cerro de las Motillas

The Cerro de las Motillas system with more than 6 Km. of known galeries and 9 entrances is one of the most important cave systems in Andalucía. It has every type of galleries under a relative small surface. With its many levels it is an excelent model of speleogenesis.



Sima de Villaluenga

The Sima de Villaluenga opens his big entrance at the front of the village of Villaluenga del Rosario. A seasonal torrent falls in a 60 m pit. The water reappears at a spring in the near town of Ubrique.



Sima del Republicano

The Sima del Republicano receives the water collected by the great closed plain (polje) called Llanos del Republicano. It is formed in a very compact limestone. Its galleries are beauty due to the whiteness of the rock. It is a typical active system that ends at the moment in a very deep siphon at -240 m.



Sima del Republicano

With a 90 m. pit at the entrance the Sima del Cacao impact the caver. At the middle of the pit a great gallery bring us to the greatest chamber of the province. The GIEX chamber has a beauty 20 m. hight flowstone at the entrance.



Cueva de los Bermejales

The cueva de los Bermejales is the only important cave carved in mioceno limestone in Western Andalucía. It has more than 750 m. of galleries. The great number of visitants and the extraction of guano for farming has caused visible damage to the cave in a few years.



Sistema Hundidero-Gato

The Hundidero-Gato system is not in the province of Cádiz but near it. We have put it in this pages because is the longest cave of Andalucía and belongs to the Grazalema natural park. More than 10 Km. are surveyed until now.



Llano de Pozuelo

The Polje of Pozuelo is near to Montejaque (Málaga). It has 3 sumps of a great interest, beeing one of them, the MQ-EK-1, one of the deepest caves in Andalucia, more than 300 m. deep. The other two caves are Pozuelo I and Pozuelo II.



Hoyo de Cortes

The Hoyo de Cortes, it is also at the Malaga province but it is near us and we like it.



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