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Tenglong Cave: 52,800 m (173,200 ft) karst Hubei Province Taiji Cave: 54,000 m (177,000 ft) karst Anhui Province Tianyuan Cave: Beijing Municipality Xianren Cave: 14 metres (46 ft) Jiangxi Province Xueyu Cave: 1,644 m (5,394 ft) karst Chongqing Municipality Yiyuan Rong Cave Group: karst Zibo, Shandong Province: Yilong Cave: 4,200 m (13,800 ft ...
The Longyou Caves (Chinese: 龙游石窟), also called the Xiaonanhai Stone Chambers (Chinese: 小南海石室), are a group of 24 artificial sandstone caverns located at Fenghuang Hill, near the village of Shiyan Beicun on the Qu River in Longyou County, Quzhou prefecture, Zhejiang province, China. [1]
Tenglong Cave (Chinese: 腾龙洞; lit. 'soaring dragon cave') is a cave located 6.8 km (4.2 mi) from Lichuan City, Hubei, China. [1] It is believed to be the longest monomer karst cave system in the world. The cave entrance is 74 m (243 ft) and 64 m (210 ft) wide, leading to 59.8 km (37.2 mi) of passageways. [2]
At 5.4 kilometres (3.4 mi) in length and covering a surface area of 140,000 m 2 (1,500,000 sq ft), Taiji Cave is the largest natural limestone cave in East China. [2] [3] The cave's first chamber extends to 1,600 m 2 (17,000 sq ft) and has a height of 5 to 10 metres (16 to 33 ft). [4] To date nineteen separate chambers have been opened to visitors.
Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site (周口店北京人遗址), also romanized as Choukoutien, is a cave system in suburban Fangshan District, Beijing.It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus (Homo erectus pekinensis), dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the giant short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris.
Guanyindong (Chinese: 观音洞; pinyin: Guānyīndòng) or Guanyin Cave is a Palaeolithic cave site, discovered in 1964 by archaeologist Pei Wenzhong in Qianxi County, Guizhou, China. During several archaeological excavations in the 1960s and 1970s, most of the material remains were gathered from the cave entrance.
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The Guyaju Caves are the largest cliff dwelling site found in China as of 2016. The site can be divided into two parts, the front ditch and the back ditch, all of which sit east to west and cover an area of 1.5 square kilometers, with a cave chiseling area of 3,931 square meters.