Main caves in the province of Cádiz and surroundings
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Hoyo de Cortes, it is also at the Malaga
province but it is near us and we like it.
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