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Map of Paleolithic cave art sites in the Franco-Cantabrian region.. The Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain (Cueva de Altamira y arte rupestre paleolítico del Norte de España) is a grouping of 18 caves of northern Spain, which together represent the apogee of Upper Paleolithic cave art in Europe between 35,000 and 11,000 years ago (Aurignacian, Gravettian, Solutrean ...
The islet contains a few underwater caves. [3] The islet seen from São Miguel, with Farilhão on the left. The islet is located between 500 metres (1,600 ft) and 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) off the south-central coast of the island of São Miguel, adjacent the municipality, town, and port of Vila Franca do Campo.
The most famous Spanish caves are: Cave of Altamira, in Cantabria, famous for its Upper Paleolithic paintings. Cuevas del Drach, on Majorca, containing one of the largest subterranean lakes in the world. Gruta Helada de Casteret (Grotte Casteret), a well-known limestone ice cave discovered by Norbert Casteret and family.
Alongside the Albufeira-Ferreira railline, showing the topography of the region. Ferreiras is one of the five civil parishes Albufeira, located within the referred coastal Algarve, occupying 2,227 hectares of the municipality's 14,066 hectare territory.
Ferreirasdorp (or Ferreirastown) [2] is an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.. First known as Ferreira's Camp (Afrikaans: Ferreiraskamp) and later Ferreira's Township, it is the oldest part of Johannesburg.
Jojar Cave 1300 [46] 2.2 km (1.4 mi) Iran ... Map all coordinates in "List of deepest caves" using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates)
In March 2008, Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, undertook an exploration project in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site outside of Johannesburg, in order to map the known caves identified by him and his colleagues over the past several decades, and to place known fossil sites onto Google Earth so that information could be shared with colleagues. [1]
It occupies an area of 383.9 km 2 (148.2 sq mi) and is the most important limestone deposit in Portugal, with a variety of geological formations and climate associated with karst geomorphology and topography, such as underground caves and sinkholes. [3]