What is speleology ?

Exploration of caverns and its study are the objects of speleology.

This activity is born at the end of the past century in France. It extends for Europe and the World in a few years.

As a sport it brings the emotions of the great adventures in the nature.

In a weekend or in a single day, the caver can feel himself in a world as remote as the bottom of the sea or the surface of another planet.

From the confortable horizontal caves to the deepest pits or across complex maces, there are many types of caves that requires you to have diferents levels of knowlege and experience.

To practise speleo you need not only physical condition but also mental aptitude.

The subterranean world can be fantastic or terrible, training and attitude of the explorer do the diference.

The spanish cavers are gruped in the Federación Española de Espeleología that includes 15 territorial federations, like the Federación Andaluza. There are more than 250 groups and 5.000 cavers in Spain.

This groups organize training in various subjects and levels with the collaboration of the Schools of Speleolgy that depend of the Federations that also maintains rescue teams.

As a scientifical activity it attracts atention of geologists, biologists, archaeologists and many others that find in the caves a place to learn from.

From prehistoric days to the present, caves have been refuge and habitat of many cultures.

Animals of the underworld has adapted to extreme conditions, they has lost vision and pigments, but they has developped new senses and strategies to survive in this media.