This is a list of caves of the world that have articles or that are properly cited. They are sorted by continent and then country.

Cave A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. The word ''cave'' can refer to smaller openings such as sea ...

s which are in overseas territories on a different continent than the home country are sorted by the territory's continent and name.

Africa

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Cango caves The Cango Caves are located in Precambrian limestones at the foothills of the Swartberg range near the town of Oudtshoorn, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The principal cave is one of the country's finest, best known, and most pop ...

western cape The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 202 ...

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cave painting In archaeology, Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest known are more than 40,000 ye ...

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Algeria

* Aïn Taïba * Anou Achra Lemoun * Anou Boussouil * Anou Ifflis * Anou Timedouine * Gueldaman caves * Ghar Boumâaza * Grotte de Cervantes * Kef Al Kaous * Rivière De La Tafna

Botswana

Gcwihaba Gcwihaba is a cave in Botswana located in Okavango Delta region. The Gcwihaba Caves were part of the Kalahari landscape around 2 million years ago, at least for the entire period of the Pleistocene. The name of the cave is a San word and stands ...

* Rhino Cave

Cameroon

* Gouffre de Mbilibekon * Grottes de Linté * Grotte de Loung * Grotte de Mfouda * Grotte FovuFovu à Baham – Les grottes sacrées des Hautes Terres de L'Ouest Cameroun
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Matupi Cave Matupi Cave is a cave in the Mount Hoyo massif of the Ituri Rainforest, Democratic Republic of the Congo, where archaeologists have found evidence for Late Stone Age human occupation spanning over 40,000 years. The cave has some of the earliest evid ...

Thysville Caves The Thysville Caves are a cave complex in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located near the town of Mbanza-Ngungu (formerly Thysville). The cave complex is fed by tributaries of the Lower Congo River, and extends across an area of 750 square ki ...

Egypt

* Cave of Beasts *

Cave of Swimmers The Cave of Swimmers is a cave with ancient rock art in the mountainous Gilf Kebir plateau of the Libyan Desert section of the Sahara. It is located in the New Valley Governorate of southwest Egypt, near the border with Libya. History The ...

Jabal al-Ṭārif Jabal al-Ṭārif is an archaeological site in the cliffs along the Nile, located in Egypt's Qena Governorate (before 2013 in the Red Sea Governorate), about 5 km north of Nag Hammadi, and about the same distance west of Hamrah Dawm. It is the ...

Sannur Cave Sannur Cave was discovered in the 1980s after blasting in a quarry created an entrance. It is southeast of the city of Beni Suef. It has only one chamber which is about long and in diameter. It is a limestone cave overlaid with alabaster cre ...

* Magharet el Kantara

Ethiopia

Sof Omar Caves Sof Omar Caves is the longest cave in Ethiopia at long. When surveyed in 1972, it was the longest cave in Africa. Since then explorations in Algeria (Rhar Bou Ma’za - the Tafna River Cave 18.4 km) and Madagascar (Ambatoharanana - Crocodile C ...

Gabon

Abanda Caves The Abanda Caves are a cave complex in Gabon, located in the upstream of Fernan Vaz Lagoon. They were first mentioned by Dr. Marco Marti and Claude Werotte in the early 2000s, and fully explored during several caving expeditions by Oslisly, Testa ...

* Caves of Lastoursville *

Iroungou cave Iroungou Cave is a burial cave located near the city of Mouila in the Ngounié Province of Gabon. It is an archaeological site dating from pre-colonial Africa. It is a collective burial site with the remains of at least 28 people, and hundreds ...

* Mbenaltembe cave Peyrot, Massala, 1987, Contribution à l'étude des systèmes karstiques gabonais. Les réseaux souterrains de la région de Lébamba (Gabon), Karstologia 9, pp. 37-44 * Faucon cave Marescaux, 1973, Les grottes du Gabon nord-oriental : un «Karst» dans l'oxyde de fer et la silice, Bulletin de l'Association de Géographes Français 410, pp. 607-618

Kenya

* Enkapune Ya Muto *

Grotte de Leviathan Leviathan Cave, also known as the Grotte de Leviathan, is a lava tube in eastern Kenya first discovered in 1975. Although it has been segmented by the movement of tectonic plates, the overall length of the lava tube spans a distance of 11.5 km. ...

Kitum Cave Kitum Cave is located in Mount Elgon National Park, Kenya. In the 1980s, two European visitors contracted Marburg virus disease there. It is one of five named “elephant caves” of Mount Elgon where animals, including elephants, “mine” the ...

Leviathan Cave Leviathan Cave, also known as the Grotte de Leviathan, is a lava tube in eastern Kenya first discovered in 1975. Although it has been segmented by the movement of tectonic plates Plate tectonics (from the la, label=Late Latin, tectonicus, f ...

* Mau Mau Caves *

Njoro River Cave Njoro River Cave is an archaeological site on the Mau Escarpment, Kenya, that was first excavated in 1938 by Mary Leakey and her husband Louis Leakey. Excavations revealed a mass cremation site created by Elmenteitan pastoralists during the Pastor ...

* Paradise Lost Caves

Lesotho

* Kome Caves

Libya

* Ain Zayanah * Bukarma-Habibi * Umm al Masabih *

Haua Fteah Haua Fteah () is a large karstic cave located in the Cyrenaica in northeastern Libya. This site has been of significance to research on African archaeological history and anatomically modern human prehistory because it was occupied during the Mid ...

Madagascar

* Ambatoanjahana *

Ambatoharanana Ambatoharanana is a rural municipality in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Fenerive Est, which is a part of Analanjirofo region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 6,000 in 2001 commune census. Only primar ...

* Ambatomanjahana * Anjanamba cave * Ampandrianpanihy Nord * Andetobe * Andriafiabe * Anjohin'ny Voamboana * Anjohy Ambalarano * Anjohy Kibojenjy * Antsatrabonko * Riviere souterraine de Mananjeba * Marosakabe cave system

Mauritania

Agrour Amogjar The Agrour Amogjar is a 690 m high peak near the Amogjar Pass, in the Adrar plateau of central Mauritania. Its small natural shelters house a rich collection of rock painting In archaeology, rock art is human-made markings placed on natural s ...

Morocco

Caves of Hercules The Caves of Hercules is an archaeological cave complex located in Cape Spartel, Morocco. Location Situated west of Tangier, the popular tourist attraction is adjacent to the summer palace of the King of Morocco. Topography The cave has tw ...

* Friouato caves * Ifri N'hamed N'taouia * Ifri Oudadane *

Jebel Irhoud Jebel Irhoud or Adrar n Ighoud ( zgh, ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵉⵖⵓⴷ, Adrar n Iɣud; ar, جبل إيغود, žbəl iġud), is an archaeological site located just north of the locality known as Tlet Ighoud, approximately south-east of the cit ...

* Kef Aziza * Kef Tikhoubaï * Kef Toghobeit Cave * Rhar Chara * Rhar Chiker * Taforalt * Wit Tamdoun

Namibia

Apollo 11 Cave The Apollo 11 Cave is an archeological site in the ǁKaras Region of south-western Namibia, approximately southwest of Keetmanshoop. The name given to the surrounding area and presumably the cave by the Nama people was "Goachanas".John Mason, "A ...

* Arnhem Cave * Dragon's Breath Cave * The White Lady

Nigeria

* Amanchor Cave *

Ogbunike Caves The Ogbunike Caves are located in Ogbunike, Anambra State, southeastern Nigeria. Site description Located in a valley blanketed by tropical rain forest Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate ...

Réunion

* Mussard cave

Somaliland

Dhambalin Dhambalin ("half, vertically cut mountain") is an archaeological site in the central Sahil province of Somaliland. The sandstone rock shelter contains rock art depicting various animals such as horned cattle and goats, as well as giraffes, an ani ...

Laas Geel Laas Geel ( so, Laas Geel), also spelled Laas Gaal, are cave formations on the rural outskirts of Hargeisa, Somaliland, situated in the Maroodi Jeex region of the country. They contain some of the earliest known cave paintings of domesticated Afr ...

South Africa

* Blombos Cave * Boesmansgat *

Boomplaas Cave Boomplaas Cave is located in the Cango Valley in the foothills of the Swartberg mountain range, north of Oudtshoorn, Eden District Municipality in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. It has a deep stratified archaeological sequence of hum ...

Border Cave Border Cave is a rock shelter on the western scarp of the Lebombo Mountains in KwaZulu-Natal near the border between South Africa and Eswatini. Border Cave has a remarkably continuous stratigraphic record of occupation spanning about 200 ka. ...

Burchell's Shelter Burchell’s Shelter is a small rock overhang and archaeological site located in a kloof in the Ghaap Escarpment at Campbell in the Northern Cape, South Africa. As an archaeological site it has a shallow deposit containing late Holocene, mainly ...

Cango Caves The Cango Caves are located in Precambrian limestones at the foothills of the Swartberg range near the town of Oudtshoorn, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The principal cave is one of the country's finest, best known, and most pop ...

Cooper's Cave Cooper's Cave is a series of fossil-bearing breccia filled cavities. The cave is located almost exactly between the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa and ...

Diepkloof Rock Shelter Diepkloof Rock Shelter is a rock shelter in Western Cape, South Africa in which has been found some of the earliest evidence of the human use of symbols, in the form of patterns engraved upon ostrich eggshell water containers. These date arou ...

* Echo Caves * Gladysvale Cave *

Gondolin Cave Gondolin Cave is a fossiliferous dolomitic paleocave system in the Northwest Province, South Africa. The paleocave formed in the Eccles Formation dolomites ( Malmani Subgroup, Chuniespoort Group carbonate-banded iron formation marine platform). ...

* Haasgat *

Howieson's Poort Shelter Howieson's Poort Shelter is a small rock shelter in South Africa containing the archaeological site from which the Howiesons Poort period in the Middle Stone Age gets its name. This period lasted around 5,000 years, between roughly 65,800 BP and ...

* Die Kelders *

Klasies River Caves The Klasies River Caves are a series of caves located to the east of the Klasies River mouth on the Tsitsikamma coast in the Humansdorp district of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The three main caves and two shelters at the base of a high ...

Kromdraai Fossil Site Kromdraai (means crooked turn in afrikaans) is a fossil-bearing breccia-filled cave located about east of the well-known South African hominid-bearing site of Sterkfontein and about northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is situated wit ...

Makapansgat Makapansgat () (or Makapan Valley World Heritage Site) is an archaeological location within the Makapansgat and Zwartkrans Valleys, northeast of Mokopane in Limpopo province, South Africa. It is an important palaeontological site, with the local ...

Malapa Fossil Site, Cradle of Humankind Malapa is a fossil-bearing cave located about northeast of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans and about north-northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is situated within the Cradle of Humanki ...

Mapoch's Caves Mapoch's Caves is a provincial heritage site in Middelburg in the Mpumalanga Mpumalanga () is a province of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Swazi, Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu language ...

* Melkhoutboom Cave * Motsetsi Cave *

Nelson Bay Cave Nelson Bay Cave also known as Wagenaar's Cave is a Stone Age archaeological site located in the Robberg Nature Reserve on the Robberg Peninsula and facing Nelson's Bay near Plettenberg Bay in South Africa, and showing evidence of human occupat ...

* Onmeetbarediepgat * Pinnacle Point *

Plovers Lake ''Plovers Lake Cave'' is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cavity in South Africa. The cave is located about 4 km Southeast of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about 36 km Northwest of th ...

Rising Star Cave The Rising Star cave system (also known as Westminster or Empire cave) is located in the Malmani dolomites, in Bloubank River valley, about southwest of Swartkrans, part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa. Recreati ...

* Sacred caves of the Basotho *

Sibudu Cave Sibudu Cave is a rock shelter in a sandstone cliff in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is an important Middle Stone Age site occupied, with some gaps, from years ago to years ago. Evidence of some of the earliest examples of modern h ...

Sterkfontein Sterkfontein (Afrikaans for ''Strong Spring'') is a set of limestone caves of special interest to paleo-anthropologists located in Gauteng province, about northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa in the Muldersdrift area close to the town of ...

Sudwala Caves The Sudwala Caves in Mpumalanga, South Africa, are set in Precambrian dolomite (rock), dolomite rock, which was first laid down about 2800 million years ago. The caves themselves formed about 240 million years ago. They are the oldest caves ...

Taung Taung is a small town situated in the North West Province of South Africa. The name means ''place of the lion'' and was named after Tau, the King of the Barolong. ''Tau'' is the Tswana word for lion. Education High,Secondary and Middle Schools ...

* Witsie's Cave * Wonder Cave *

Wonderwerk Cave Wonderwerk Cave is an archaeological site, formed originally as an ancient solution cavity in dolomite rocks of the Kuruman Hills, situated between Danielskuil and Kuruman in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. It is a National Heritage ...

Tanzania

* Amboni Caves * Grotte de Nduli * Mumba Cave * Nandembo Cave System

Togo

* Nok and Mamproug Cave Dwellings

Tunisia

* Rhar Ain Et Tsab

Zambia

* Kalemba Rockshelter *

Mumbwa Caves The Mumbwa Caves are an archeological site in Zambia. The site has yielded artifacts that date from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and the Iron Age. The caves are a source of stratified, in situ deposits with faunal and human remains. Mumbwa, with its ...

Zimbabwe

* Bambata cave * Chinhoyi Caves * Mabura Caves * Mawenge Mwena Caves of Chimanimani

Asia

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Zhijin Cave Zhijin County is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Bijie in west-central Guizhou province, China. History Zhijin has been inhabited since the Qin, populated mainly by the Gelao. After the Jin, the Yi moved i ...

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Seven-star Cave Seven-star Cave () is an extensive limestone cave complex in Seven-star Park, both of which are popular tourist attractions in the city of Guilin in Guangxi Autonomous Region in China. The name derives from the fact the main karst limestone peaks ...

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Guilin Guilin (Standard Zhuang: ''Gveilinz''; alternatively romanized as Kweilin) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the west bank of the Li River and borders Hunan to the nort ...

Guangxi Province Guangxi (; ; alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ( ...

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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...

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Hang Sơn Đoòng Sơn Đoòng cave ( vi, hang Sơn Đoòng, IPA: ), in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, Bố Trạch District, Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam, is one of the world's largest natural caves. Located near the Laos–Vietnam border, Hang Sơn ...

's main passage is the largest known cave passage in the world.

Afghanistan

* Darra-e Kur *

Tora Bora Tora Bora ( ps, توره بوړه, "Black Cave") is a cave complex, part of the Spin Ghar (White Mountains) mountain range of eastern Afghanistan. It is situated in the Pachir Aw Agam District of Nangarhar, approximately west of the Khyber ...

* Zhawar Kili

Cambodia

* Laang Spean * Phnom Chhnork * Phnom Sampeau * Phnom Sorsia

China

* Benxi Water Caves * Bezeklik Caves * Binghu Cave * Er Wang Dong * Fu Yuan Dong *

Furong Cave Furong Cave () is a karst cave located on the banks of the Furong River, from the seat of Wulong District, Chongqing, People's Republic of China. History First discovered by local farmers in 1993 the cave was opened to tourists in 1994. It bec ...

* Fuyan Cave * Gebihe cave system * Hongqingsi Grottoes *

Huanglong Cave Huanglong Cave () is a karst cave located in Wulingyuan District, Zhangjiajie City, Hunan, People's Republic of China and a national 4A rated scenic area. As of 2010, the cave has over a million visitors per year. Since 1997, the Huanglong Cave ...

* Jiangzhou Cave System * Jiguan Cave *

Kizil Caves The Kizil Caves ( zh, t=克孜爾千佛洞, s=克孜尔千佛洞, l=Kizil Caves of the Thousand Buddhas; ug, قىزىل مىڭ ئۆي, translation=The Thousand Red Houses; also romanized Qizil Caves, spelling variant Qyzyl; Kizil means 'red') ar ...

* Kumtura Caves *

Lobster Cave Lobster Cave is a cave on Liuqiu Island, off Pingtung County, Taiwan. Name "Lobster Cave" is a calque of the cave's Chinese name. It supposedly derives from lobsters who lived there over a century ago that were driven out by the island's resid ...

* Longgu Cave * Longyou Caves *

Luobi Cave Luobi Cave () is a karst cave under the west face of Yin Ridge () located north east of Lizhigou Town (), from Sanya City, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China. Features The entrance to the cave is approximately high and wide. Insid ...

* Macaque Cave * Reed Flute Cave * San Wang Dong *

Sanmenhai Sanmenhai is a cave in the Leye-Fengshan geopark in Guangxi, China. The cave is unique in that it features seven skylights that mimic the layout of the constellation Ursa Major (the Big Dipper). Etymology ''Sanmenhai'' translates into English ...

* Shanjuan Cave *

Shuanghedong Cave Network Shuanghedong (), is the longest cave in China, in Asia, and the 5th longest in the world in 2020. It is located near the town of Wenquan in Suiyang County, Guizhou Province. This gypsum and dolomite cave has carbon dioxide levels of approximat ...

Shuanglong Cave Shuanglong Cave () is a water-filled karst cave some from Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China. Description The cave is high and long with a total area in excess of . Formed around 100 million years ago, the entrance is ...

* Silver Cave * Snowy Jade Cave *

Taiji Cave Taiji Cave () is a karst cave located on Shilong Mountain () in Guangde County, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, where the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui meet. Ming Dynasty writer and poet Feng Menglong describ ...

* Tenglong Cave * Tianyuan Cave *

Xianren Cave The Xianren Cave (, ''Xiānréndòng''), together with the nearby Diaotonghuan (, ''Diàotǒnghuán'') rock shelter, is an archaeological site in Dayuan Township (), Wannian County in the Jiangxi province, China and a location of historically imp ...

Yilong Cave Yilong Cave () is a 180-million-year-old karst cave located in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. Also known as Nielong Cave (孽龙洞/孽龍洞 literally ''evil dragon cave''), the cave extends to around in length. Ins ...

Yiyuan Rong Cave Group The Yiyuan Rong Cave Group () is a cluster of Ordovician limestone caves in the area under the administration of the city of Zibo, Shandong, Shandong Province, China. Rong Cave proper (, ) is the namesake of the cave group. It is located about to ...

Yuchanyan Cave Yuchanyan is an early Neolithic cave site in Dao County (Daoxian), Hunan, China. The site yielded sherds of ceramic vessels and other artifacts which were dated by analysis of charcoal Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue prod ...

* Yuhuangdong Grottoes *

* Zhong Cave *

Zhoukoudian Zhoukoudian Area () is a town and an area located on the east Fangshan District, Beijing, China. It borders Nanjiao and Fozizhuang Townships to its north, Xiangyang, Chengguan and Yingfeng Subdistricts to its east, Shilou and Hangcunhe Towns t ...

* Zengpiyan Cave *

Zhiren Cave Zhiren Cave () is a karstic cave in the Mulan Mountains that overlooks the Hejiang River in Chongzuo, Guangxi, China. Zhiren Cave is an early Late Pleistocene site that has yielded the fossil remains of possibly anatomically modern humans with so ...

East Timor

Lene Hara cave The Lena Hara cave is the main cave of a system of solutional caves in the Lautém District at the eastern tip of East Timor (Timor-Leste), close to the village of Tutuala. Others are ''Ile Kére Kére'' and ''Jerimalai''. Lene Hara has provided ...

India

Ajanta Caves The Ajanta Caves are approximately thirty rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century BCE to about 480 CE in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India. The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures de ...

* Amarnath Cave Temple *

Badami Cave Temples The Badami cave temples are a complex of Hindu and Jain cave temples located in Badami, a town in the Bagalkot district in northern part of Karnataka, India. The caves are important examples of Indian rock-cut architecture, especially Badam ...

Bagh Caves The Bagh Caves are a group of nine rock-cut monuments, situated among the southern slopes of the Vindhyas in Bagh town of Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh state in central India. These monuments are located at a distance of 97 km from Dhar ...

Barabar Caves The Barabar Hill Caves (Hindi बराबर, ''Barābar'') are the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India, dating from the Maurya Empire (322–185 BCE), some with Ashokan inscriptions, located in the Makhdumpur region of Jehanabad distric ...

Belum Caves The Belum Caves, located in Nandyala district of Andhra Pradesh's Rayalaseema region, is the second largest cave system on the Indian subcontinent, known for its speleothems, such as stalactite and stalagmite formations. The Belum Caves h ...

Borra Caves The Borra Caves (also called ''Borra Guhalu'') are located on the East Coast of India, in the Ananthagiri hills of the Araku Valley (with hill ranges' elevation varying from ) of the Alluri Sitharama Raju district in Andhra Pradesh. The caves ...

Caves of Meghalaya The Caves of Meghalaya comprise a large number of caves in the Jaintia, Khasi Hills, and Garo Hills districts in the Indian state of Meghalaya, and are amongst the longest caves in the world. Of the ten longest and deepest caves in India, the ...

* Edakkal Caves *

Elephanta Caves The Elephanta Caves are a collection of cave temples predominantly dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. They are on Elephanta Island, or ''Gharapuri'' (literally "the city of caves"), in Mumbai Harbour, east of Mumbai in the Indian state of ...

* Ellora Caves * Erravaram Caves *

Guntupalli Caves The Guntupalle or Guntupalli Group of Buddhist Monuments is located near Kamavarapukota, Eluru district, in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It is around 40 km away from Eluru. The rock-cut part of the site has two Buddhist caves, a ...

Jogeshwari Caves The Jogeshwari Caves are some of the earliest Hinduism cave temples sculptures located in the Mumbai suburb of Jogeshwari, India. The caves date back to 520 to 550 CE. These caves belongs to the Hindu deity Jogeshwari. According to historian ...

* Kailash Caves *

Kanheri Caves The Kanheri Caves (''Kānherī-guhā'' aːnʱeɾiː ɡuɦaː are a group of caves and rock-cut monuments cut into a massive basalt outcrop in the forests of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, on the former island of Salsette in the western outs ...

Karla Caves The Karla Caves, Karli Caves, Karle Caves or Karla Cells, are a complex of ancient Buddhist Indian rock-cut caves at Karli near Lonavala, Maharashtra. It is just 10.9 Kilometers away from Lonavala. Other caves in the area are Bhaja Caves, Pat ...

Kotumsar Cave Kotumsar cave is a limestone cave located near Jagdalpur in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Kotumsar cave is a major attraction for people interested in ecotourism. It was initially named Gopansar cave (Gopan = hidden) but the present name Ko ...

Krem Liat Prah Krem Liat Prah is the longest natural cave in South Asia. Prah ( is the Khasi word for "cave") is one of approximately 150 known caves in the Shnongrim Ridge of the East Jaintia Hills district in the state of Meghalaya, northeast India In ...

* Krem Synrang Pamiang * Lakhudiyar Caves *

Lenyadri Lenyadri, sometimes called Ganesa Lena, Ganesh Pahar Caves, are a series of about 30 rock-cut Buddhist caves, located about north of Junnar in Pune district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Other caves surrounding the city of Junnar are: M ...

* Lohani Caves *

Mahakali Caves The Kondivite Caves, also Mahakali Caves, are a group of 19 rock-cut monuments built between 1st century BCE and 6th century CE. This Buddhist monastery is located in the eastern suburb of Andheri in the city of Mumbai (Bombay) in western Ind ...

Mandapeshwar Caves ''The Mandapeshwar Caves'' ( mr, मंडपेश्वर गुहा) is an 8th Century rock-cut shrine dedicated to Shiva located near Mount Poinsur in Borivali, a suburb of Mumbai in Maharashtra, India. The caves were originally Buddhist ...

Moghalrajpuram caves The Mogalrajapuram Caves are five rock-cut cave temple groups located in different parts of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. Dedicated to Shiva, they were excavated during the Eastern Chalukya reign or the Vishnukundins reign. They are genera ...

Pandavleni Caves The Nasik Caves, or Trirashmi Leni (''Trirashmi'' being the name of the hills in which the caves are located, ''Leni'' being a Marathi word for caves), are a group of 23 caves carved between the 1st century BCE and the 3rd century CE, though ...

* Patal Bhuvaneshwar * Robber's Cave *

Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period. It exhibits the earliest traces of human life in India and evidence of Stone Age starting ...

* Siju Cave * Umachal rock cave * Undavalli caves * Varaha Cave Temple

Indonesia

* Buniayu Cave *

Caves in the district of Maros The caves in the Maros-Pangkep karst are situated in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and contain paintings from the Paleolithic considered to be the earliest figurative art in the world, dated to at least 43,900 years ago. Description The caves in t ...

* Harimau Cave * Liang Bua Cave * Lokale *

Lubang Jeriji Saléh Lubang Jeriji Saleh is a limestone cave complex in Indonesia in the Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Karst located in the remote jungle of Bengalon district in East Kutai Regency, East Kutai, East Kalimantan province on Indonesian Borneo, Borneo island. ...

* Maharani cave * Mirror Stone Cave *

Pettakere cave The caves in the Maros-Pangkep karst are situated in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and contain paintings from the Paleolithic considered to be the earliest figurative art in the world, dated to at least 43,900 years ago. Description The caves in t ...

* Pindul Cave

Iran

* Ali-Sadr Cave * Bisitun Cave * Darband Cave * Dashkasan * Deragon Cave * Do-Ashkaft Cave *

Eshkaft-e Salman Eshkaft-e Salman or ''Shekaft-e Salman'' Location On the southwest side of the valley, 2.5 km from the town center of Izeh, southwest Iran, is the majestic “''romantic grotto''” of Shekaft-e Salman (“Salomon’s Cave”) where a ...

* Eshkaft-e Siahoo * Ghar Parau * Ghar-e-Pariyan * Ghar-e-Roodafshan *

Huto and Kamarband Caves The Hotu and Kamarband Caves or Belt Caves are prehistoric archaeological sites in Iran. They are located apart, in a cliff on the slopes of the Alborz mountains in the village of Toroujen (currently called Shahid Abad), south west of Behshahr. ...

* Kalahrod * Karaftu * Katale Khor * Mahi Kur Cave *

Nakhcheer Nakhcheer or Chal-Nakhjir is a cave situated in Markazi Province of Iran. It is a limestone cave approximately 70 million years old. Parts of the cave including its internal lake have been prepared for easy tourist access. It was discovered in 1 ...

* Qaleh Bozi * Quri Qale Cave * Roodafshan Cave * Shafaq cave * Shapur cave * Shirabad cave *

Wezmeh The Wezmeh Cave is an archaeological site near Islamabad Gharb, western Iran, around southwest of the capital Tehran. The site was discovered in 1999 and excavated in 2001 by a team of Iranian archaeologists under the leadership of Dr. Kamyar ...

* Yafteh

Iraq

Shanidar Cave Shanidar Cave ( ku, Zewî Çemî Şaneder ,ئەشکەوتی شانەدەر, ) is an archaeological site located on Bradost Mountain, within the Zagros Mountains, in the Erbil Governorate of Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. It is known for the ...

Israel

* Avshalom Cave * Ayalon Cave * Azekah Caves * Beit She'arim (moshav) *

Cave of Elijah Cave of Elijah is the name used for two grottoes on Mount Carmel, in Haifa, Israel, associated with Biblical prophet Elijah. According to tradition, Elijah is believed to have prayed at a grotto before challenging the priests of Baal on Mount Car ...

* Cave of Horror *

Cave of Letters The Cave of Letters is a cave in Nahal Hever in the Judean Desert where letters and fragments of papyri from the Roman Empire period were found. Some are related to the Bar Kokhba revolt (circa 131-136), including letters of correspondence betw ...

* Cave of Nicanor *

Es Skhul Es-Skhul (es-Skhūl, ar, السخول; meaning ''kid'', ''young goat'') or the Skhul Cave is a prehistoric cave site situated about south of the city of Haifa, Israel, and about from the Mediterranean Sea. Together with the nearby sites of Ta ...

* HaYonim Cave * Horvat Midras *

Kebara Cave Kebara Cave ( he, מערת כבארה, Me'arat Kebbara, ar, مغارة الكبارة, Mugharat al-Kabara) is a limestone cave locality in Wadi Kebara, situated at above sea level on the western escarpment of the Carmel Range, in the Ramat HaN ...

* Keshet Cave * Komotayim cave
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Manot Cave Manot Cave ( ''Me'arat Manot'') is a cave in Western Galilee, Israel, discovered in 2008. It is notable for the discovery of a skull that belongs to a modern human, called Manot 1, which is estimated to be 54,700 years old (U–Th dating of the ...

* Nahal Me'arot * Pa'ar Cave * Qesem Cave *

Rosh HaNikra grottoes Rosh HaNikra or Hanikra ( he, ראש הנקרה, "Head of the Grotto"; ar, رأس الناقورة, Ras an-Nakura) is a geologic formation on the border between Israel and Lebanon, located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, in the We ...

* Salt Colonel Cave *

Tabun Cave The Tabun Cave is an excavated site located at Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve, Israel and is one of the Human Evolution sites at Mount Carmel, which were proclaimed as having universal value by UNESCO in 2012. History Together with the nearby s ...

* Tel Maresha

Japan

* Abukuma-do (阿武隈洞) * Akiyoshi-do (秋芳洞) *

Akkadō is a limestone cavern located in the town of Iwaizumi, Iwate Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. It has a measured length of , which makes it the longest in Japan.

(安家洞) * Kyusen-do (球泉洞) *

Reigandō is a cave that lies to the west of Kumamoto, Japan, that became a temporary home to the legendary rōnin, Miyamoto Musashi. From 1643, Musashi spent many of his last months in the cave, meditating and writing his ''Book of Five Rings''. The cave i ...

* Uchimagi-do (内間木洞) * Shiraho Saonetabaru Cave Ruins

Jordan

Iraq ed-Dubb Iraq ed-Dubb, or the Cave of the Bear, is an early Neolithic archeological site northwest of Ajlun in the Jordan Valley, in modern-day Jordan. The settlement existed before 8,000 BCE and experimented with the cultivation of founder crops, side ...

Kazakhstan

* Akbaur cave * Boj-Boulok * Rangkul'skaja Cave

Korea

Geomunoreum Lava Tube System The Geomunoreum Lava Tube System is located between Seonheul-ri, Jocheon-eup and Weoljeong-ri, Gujwa-eup, Jeju City, Jeju-do. This lava tube system refers to a series of lava tubes formed while basaltic lava flow which had erupted several times ...

Gimnyeonggul The Gimnyeonggul Lava Tube, located in Donggimnyeong-ri, Gujwa-eup, Jeju City, is one of the World Heritage Sites in South Korea. The lava tube is about 705 m long, and is believed to be separated from Manjanggul Lava Tube by lava flows. The ...

* Gosu Cave * Gwangmyeong Cave * Hwanseon Cave * Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes * Komun Moru * Manjanggul *

Songam Cavern Songam Cavern is a major tourist venue in North Korea. It consists of 17 well-lit karst caves full of picturesque stone formations including stalactites and stalagmites. The cavern is located in Kaech'ŏn-si, South Pyongan Province. Among the ...

Laos

Chom Ong Chom Ong Cave is a cave system located in Oudomxay Province, in the north of Laos. Featuring a length of more of 16 km, it ranks now as the longest cave in Northern Laos and is one of the top 10 in all Laos. Naming The villagers of Ban Cho ...

Pak Ou Caves Near Pak Ou (mouth of the Ou river) the Tham Ting (lower cave) and the Tham Theung (upper cave) are caves overlooking the Mekong River, 25 km to the north of Luang Prabang, Laos. They are a group of two caves on the west side of the Mekong river, ...

Tam Pa Ling Cave Tam Pa Ling (''Cave of the Monkeys'') is a cave in the Annamite Mountains in north-eastern Laos. It is situated at the top of Pa Hang Mountain, above sea level. Three hominin fossils have been discovered in the cave: ''TPL1'', a skull belongin ...

* Tham Jang * Tham Kong Lo * Tham Non * Tham Pha * Tham Phu Kham *

Tham Sang Triangle The Tham Sang Triangle refer to a group of four caves in close proximity, located roughly north of Vang Vieng, Laos, to the northwest of the village of Ban Pakpo. The four caves are Tham Sang, Tham Hoi, Tham Loup, and Tham Nam. The name "Tham San ...

Viengxay caves The Viengxay caves in Houaphanh Province of north-eastern Laos are an extensive network of caves in limestone mountains. Four-hundred eighty of these caves were used by the Pathet Lao during the Second Indochina War to shelter from American bomba ...

Lebanon

Antelias cave Antelias Cave was a large cave located east of Antelias, northeast of Beirut close to the wadi of Ksar Akil. It was discovered by Heidenborg in 1833. Godefroy Zumoffen made an excavation in 1893, finding an Aurignacian industry amongst large qua ...

* Jeita Grotto *

Nachcharini The Nachcharini cave is located at a height of on the ''Nachcharini Plateau'' in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains near the Lebanese/Syrian border and among the most elevated Natufian and Khiamian hunter-gatherer occupation sites found to date. Modera ...

Kaukaba Kaukaba, Kaukabet El-Arab or Kaukaba Station is a village in the Hasbaya District in the Nabatiye Governorate in southern Lebanon. Archaeology By the village is a Neolithic archaeological site East of Majdel Balhis near Rashaya in the Beqaa ...

Ksar Akil Ksar Akil (also Ksar 'Akil or Ksar Aqil) is an archeological site northeast of Beirut in Lebanon. It is located about west of Antelias spring on the north bank of the northern tributary of the Wadi Antelias. It is a large rock shelter below ...

Ras Baalbek I Ras Baalbek I ( ar, رأس بعلبك) is a rock shelter east of Ras Baalbek in the northern Beqaa Valley in Lebanon. It sits north of the Wadi Teniyet er-Râs valley at a height of . It was first discovered by Lorraine Copeland and Peter Wesco ...

* Ras El Kelb

Malaysia

Batu Caves Batu Caves ( ta, பத்து மலை : Pathumalai) is a mogote (a type of karst landform) that has a series of caves and cave temples in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia. It takes its name from the Malay word ''batu'', meaning 'rock'. The hill ...

* Biocyclone Cave * Clearwater Cave * Deer Cave * Gomantong Cave *

Gua Tempurung Tempurung Cave ( ms, Gua Tempurung) is a cave in Gopeng, Kampar District, Perak, Malaysia, located within the Kinta Valley Geopark. It is popular among spelunkers, or caving enthusiasts. More than 3 km long, it is one of the longest caves in Pe ...

* Niah Caves * Sam Poh Tong *

Sarawak Chamber Sarawak Chamber is the largest known cave chamber in the world by area and the second largest by volume after the Miao Room in China. It is in Gua Nasib Bagus (Good Luck Cave), which is located in Gunung Mulu National Park, in the Malaysian Territor ...

Mongolia

* Dayan Deerh Cave * Galtai Cave * Khoit Tsenkher Cave * Taliin Cave * Tsagaan Cave

Myanmar

* Padah-Lin Caves * Peik Chin Myaung Cave *

Phowintaung Phowintaung ( my, ဖိုလ်ဝင်တောင် , also spelt as Hpowindaung, Powintaung, Po Win Taung) is a Buddhist cave complex located approximately west of Monywa and southeast of Yinmabin, in Yinmabin Township, Monywa District, ...

Pindaya Caves The Pindaya Caves ( my, ပင်းတယရွှေဥမင်, ; officially ), located next to the town of Pindaya, Shan State, Burma (Myanmar) are a Buddhist pilgrimage site and a tourist attraction located on a limestone ridge in the Myel ...

Nepal

* Chobhar caves * Gupteswor cave *

Mahendra Cave Mahendra Cave is a cave located in Pokhara-16,batulechaur, Kaski district, close to the Kali khola, is a large limestone cave. It is a rare example of a cave system in Nepal containing stalagmites and stalactites. This show cave attracts thousand ...

* Maratika Cave *

Mustang Caves Mustang Caves or Sky Caves of Nepal are a collection of some 10,000 man-made caves dug into the sides of valleys in the Mustang District of Nepal. Several groups of archaeologists and researchers have explored these stacked caves and found partia ...

* Siddha cave

Oman

* Al Hoota Cave * Majlis al Jinn

Pakistan

* Bazar Caves * Pir Ghaib Gharr Gharra * Kashmir Smast * Sanghao Cave

Papua New Guinea

* Afawa Cave * Atea Cave * Diu Diu Cave *

Kilu Cave Kilu Cave is a paleoanthropological site located on Buka Island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Kilu Cave is located at the base of a limestone cliff, from the modern coastline. With evidence for human occupation datin ...

* Tawali Skull Cave

Philippines

* Adiangao Cave *

Callao Cave Callao Cave () is one of 300 limestone caves located in the Barangays of Magdalo and Quibal in the municipality of Peñablanca, about northeast of Tuguegarao City, the capital of Cagayan province within the Peñablanca Protected Landscape and ...

* Caves in Misamis Oriental *

Guyangan Cave System The Guyangan Cave System ( fil, Mga Yungib ng Guyangan) is a group of caves located in the island municipality of Banton, Romblon, Banton, Romblon in the Philippines. It is located in Guyangan Hill, a limestone formation situated in barangays Tog ...

Hinagdanan Cave Hinagdanan Cave is a cave in the municipality of Dauis on Panglao Island, in Bohol Province, in the Philippines. It is a naturally lighted cavern with a deep lagoon and many large stalactites A stalactite (, ; from the Greek 'stalaktos' (' ...

* Huluga Caves * Kalanay Cave * Kutawato Caves * Lapuz Lapuz Cave * Libmanan Caves National Park * Lucsuhin Natural Bridge * Macahambus Cave *

Minori Cave Minori Cave is part of the Callao limestone formation, located in Barangay Quibal, Municipality of Peñablanca, Cagayan Province in Northern Luzon. The said cave has two openings. One, designated as Mouth B, is located at 17° 43' 17" N latitude ...

* Monfort Bat Sanctuary * Pamitinan Cave * Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park * Sohoton Cave * Tabon Cave

Qatar

Al Mukaynis Al Mukaynis is a locality of Mebaireek located in the municipality of Ar Rayyan, Qatar. Mudhlem Cave, which translates to "Dark Cave" in Arabic, is located in the area. Nearby Al Rekayya Farms (Irkaya Farms) is a popular bird watching site. In J ...

Dhal Al Misfir Dhal Al Misfir is a cavern that is a natural landmark in the Rawdat Rasid area of Qatar.What caves are in Q ...

Russia

* Akhshtyrskaya Cave * Avilova Cave * Chertovy Vorota Cave *

Denisova Cave Denisova Cave (russian: Денисова пещера, lit= the cave of Denis, translit= Denísova peshchéra; alt, Аю-Таш, lit= Bear Rock, translit= Ayu Tash) is a cave in the Bashelaksky Range of the Altai mountains, Siberia, Russia. The ...

* Ignatievka Cave *

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* Kungur Ice Cave * Kurgazak cave * Marble Cave *

Mezmaiskaya cave Mezmaiskaya Cave (russian: Мезмайская пещера) is a prehistoric cave site overlooking the right bank of the Sukhoi Kurdzhips (a tributary of the Kurdzhips River) in the southern Russian Republic of Adygea, located in the northweste ...

* Okladnikov Cave *

Orda Cave Orda Cave (Ординская, ''Ordinskaya'') is a gypsum crystal cave found underneath the western Ural Mountains. The mouth is near the shore of the Kungur River just outside Orda, Perm Krai in Russia. The cave system stretches over with ...

Salavat Yulayev Cave The Salavat Yulayev Cave, also known as the Cave of Salavat Yulayev or Salavat Cave is a cave located in the Ishimbaysky District, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental coun ...

* Sugomak Cave * Syukeyevo Caves * Vorontsovka Caves * Vyalova cave

Sri Lanka

* Andirilena Cave * Batatotalena Cave * Belilena Cave * Bogoda Cave *

Dambulla Cave Temple Dambulla cave temple ( si, දඹුල්ල රජ මහා විහාරය, Dam̆būlla Raja Maha Vihāraya; ta, தம்புள்ளை பொற்கோவில், Tampuḷḷai Poṟkōvil) also known as the Golden Temple of Dam ...

* Fa Hien Cave *

Hunugalagala Limestone Cave Hunugalagala is a Limestone cave, which is located in Haldummulla, Badulla District of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ...

* Kuragala * Lahugala Cave * Nitro Cave * Pannila Cave * Rawana Ella Cave * Sithripura Cave * Wavulpone Cave

South Korea

* Geumganggul Cave

Thailand

Doi Nang Non Doi Nang Non ( th, ดอยนางนอน, ; 'Mountain of the Sleeping Lady') is a mountain range in the Thai highlands in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. It is a karstic formation with numerous waterfalls and caves rising at the southern en ...

* Emerald Cave * Naresuan Cave * Spirit Cave * Tham Hua Kalok * Tham Lot *

Tham Mae Lana Tham Mae Lana ( th, ถ้ำแม่ละนา) is a karst cave located in Mae Lana, Pang Mapha District, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand. It is abundant in stalactites, and is home to a subterranean stream that is populated by cavefish, includ ...

* Tham Phra Wang Daeng

Turkmenistan

Cave of Dzhebel The Cave of Dzhebel is an archeological site near the Krasnovodsk Gulf of the Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan. First explored by Alexey Okladnikov in 1949 and 1950, the site revealed Mesolithic, Neolithic and early Bronze Age artefacts. According ...

* Koytendag Caves

Uzbekistan

* Boybuloq Cave * Dark Star * Obi-Rakhmat Grotto *

Teshik-Tash Teshik-Tash 1 is a Neanderthal skeleton discovered in 1938 in Teshik-Tash Cave, in the Bajsuntau mountain range, Uzbek SSR, Central Asia. The remains were discovered in 1938 by A. P. Okladnikov. They were found in a shallow pit, reported to be ...

Vietnam

West Bank

Cave of the Patriarchs , alternate_name = Tomb of the Patriarchs, Cave of Machpelah, Sanctuary of Abraham, Ibrahimi Mosque (Mosque of Abraham) , image = Palestine Hebron Cave of the Patriarchs.jpg , alt = , caption = Southern view of the complex, 2009 , map ...

Cave of the Ramban The Cave of the Ramban is located in the southern cliff of the Upper Kidron Valley, on a slope descending into the Arab neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz, Jerusalem. It is believed by some to be the traditional burial place of Nahmanides (also known as ...

Qumran Qumran ( he, קומראן; ar, خربة قمران ') is an archaeological site in the West Bank managed by Israel's Qumran National Park. It is located on a dry marl plateau about from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, near the Israeli ...

Warren's Shaft Warren's Shaft is a vertical shaft next to the Gihon Spring, the main source of water of Bronze and Iron Age Jerusalem, discovered in 1867 by British engineer and archaeologist, Sir Charles Warren (1840–1927). The term is currently used in eit ...

Zedekiah's Cave Zedekiah's Cave—also called Solomon's Quarries—is a underground meleke limestone quarry that runs the length of five city blocks under the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was carved over a period of several thousand years ...

Europe

Armenia

* Areni-1 Cave *

Azokh Cave Azykh Cave ( az, Azıx mağarası), also referred to as Azokh Cave () is a six-cave complex in Azerbaijan, known as a habitation site of prehistoric humans. It is situated near the village of Azykh in the Khojavend District. The cave is an impor ...

Austria

* Drachenhöhle *

Eisriesenwelt The Eisriesenwelt (German for "World of the Ice Giants") is a natural limestone and ice cave located in Werfen, Austria, about 40 km south of Salzburg. The cave is inside the Hochkogel mountain in the Tennengebirge section of the Alps. I ...

* Gudenus cave *

Lamprechtsofen Lamprechtsofen (also called Lamprechtshöhle, Lamprechtsofenhöhle or, together with a connected cave, Lamprechtsofen-Vogelschacht) is a limestone karst river cave in Austria. With a depth of , it is one of the deepest caves in the world. Before t ...

Lurgrotte The Lurgrotte karst cave is the largest cave in the Eastern Alps of Styria, Austria. It is located about north of Graz and crosses the Tannenben karst region. The cave has two accessible entrances, one at the village of ...

* Salzofen cave * Schwarzmooskogel Cave System * Seegrotte *

Spannagel Cave The Spannagel Cave (german: Spannagelhöhle) is a show cave near Hintertux, in the Zillertal Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Currently about 10 kilometres of cave have been discovered; guided tours enable access to 500 metres of the cave. It ...

* Steinbrücken Cave * Tischofer Cave * Traungold Cave * Unicorn Cave

Azerbaijan

* Allar Cave * Ashabi-Kahf in Nakhchivan *

* Buzeyir cave *

Damjili Cave Damjili ( az, Damcılı mağarası) – is a half-circular shaped cave site (6400-6000 BC) in Azerbaijan, where evidence of prehistoric human presence during the Paleolithic and Mesolithic was discovered. Various stone tools, arrowheads, flint k ...

Tağlar Cave The Taghlar cave ( az, Tağlar mağarası; hy, Մեծ Թաղերի Քարայր, Mets Tagheri Karayr) is an archaeological site that was inhabited by prehistoric humans of the Mousterian culture during the Paleolithic. The cave is located in A ...

Zar Cave Zar cave ( az, Zar mağarası) is an archaeological site of prehistoric human habitation during the Upper Paleolithic. It is located in the southern part of Zar village, in Kalbajar District, Azerbaijan. During an archaeological campaign in the ...

Belgium

Caves of Han-sur-Lesse The Caves of Han-sur-Lesse (in French: Grottes de Han-sur-Lesse or simply Grottes de Han) refers to a natural complex of caves in Belgium. A major Belgian tourist attraction (around 250-300,000 visitors per year), the caves are located in Walloni ...

Caves of Hotton The Caves of Hotton are speleothem caves located in Wallonia near Hotton in Belgium, which were discovered in 1958 and are around 5 or 6 km long and 70 metres deep. A stream called ''Syphon'' runs at the bottom of the caves. Gallery Image:H ...

* Goyet Caves * Grotte de Rosée * Neptune Caves * Naulette * Scladina * Spy Cave * Trou de l’Abîme

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Badanj Cave Badanj Cave ( Bosnian: ''Pećina Badanj'') is located in Borojevići village near the town of Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This rather small cave has come to public attention after the 1976 discovery of its cave engravings, that date to betwee ...

* Vjetrenica

Bulgaria

Bacho Kiro Cave The Bacho Kiro cave () is situated west of the town Dryanovo, Bulgaria, only away from the Dryanovo Monastery. It is embedded in the canyons of the Andaka and Dryanovo River. It was opened in 1890 and the first recreational visitors entered the ...

* Devetashka cave * Kozarnika *

Ledenika Ledenika ( bg, Леденика, English: icy or glacial) is a cave in the Northwestern parts of the Balkan Mountains, 16 km away from the Bulgarian city of Vratsa. Its entrance is approximately 830 m above sea level. The cave features an abu ...

* Magura Cave * Orlova Chuka * Devil's Throat Cave * Prohodna *

Saeva dupka Saeva dupka ( bg, Съева дупка) is a cave in northern Bulgaria near the village of Brestnitsa, Lovech Province (). The cave has naturally formed 400 meters of corridors and halls. The cave has hosted many choral music performances, thanks ...

* Snezhanka Cave * Uhlovitsa * Yagodinska cave

Croatia

* Amfora Pit * Baredine Cave *

Biserujka Biserujka is a cave located 6 km northeast of Dobrinj, in the village of Rudine, above Slivanjska Bay, in the island of Krk, Croatia. An undistinguished stone house in the middle of a bare karst landscape hides the entrance to a cave 12&nbs ...

* Blue Grotto * Caves of Barać *

Drakonjina špilja Drakonjina špilja (meaning "Dragon's cave"), also known as Zmajeva pećina ("Wurm's cave"), is called so because of the mysterious relief of a dragon found inside. It is located immediately above Murvica, on the island of Brač, in Croatia. The ...

* Grabovača * Grapčeva cave * Jazovka *

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Vela Spila The Vela Spila cave ( hr, Vela Spila, italic=no, "Big Cave") is situated above the town of Vela Luka on the island of Korčula, in Croatia on Pinski Rat hill at an elevation of approximately . The cave consists of an elliptically shaped cavern ...

Velebit caves The Velebit mountains of Croatia have several deep caves with some of the world's largest subterranean vertical drops. The "Lukina jama" cave is 1431 m deep (2013), the deepest cave in Croatia, 14th deepest cave in the world and the deepest cave i ...

Vindija Cave Vindija Cave is an archaeological site associated with Neanderthals and modern humans, located in the municipality of Donja Voća, northern Croatia. Three of these Neanderthals were selected as the primary sources for the first draft sequence ...

Vrtare Male Vrtare Male is a pit cave located near Dramalj, a seaside village in Croatia. Its depth is believed to be , with around submerged. It was first explored in 1966 by the Mountaineering Society Velebit. In 1996, Dragan Pelić, a photographer and s ...

Czech Republic

Amatérská Cave Amatérská Cave (in Czech ''Amatérská jeskyně'', in English ''Amateurs Cave'', not used) is part of longest cave system in the Moravia, Czech Republic. It is also famous for archaeological discoveries. Except for the entrance, the cave is no ...

* Býčí skála *

Hranice Abyss Hranice Abyss ( cs, Hranická propast) is the deepest flooded pit cave in the world. It is a karst sinkhole near the town of Hranice, Czech Republic. The greatest confirmed depth is , of which is underwater. In 2020, a scientific expedition to ...

* Klácelka *

Koněprusy Caves Koněprusy Caves ( cz, Koněpruské jeskyně) is a cave system in the heart of the limestone region known as Bohemian Karst in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It is located in the municipality of Koněprusy, about southwest o ...

* Kůlna Cave * Macocha Gorge in the Punkva Caves * Mladeč caves * Moravian Karst * Punkva Caves * Šipka * Zbrašov aragonite caves

Denmark

* Sorte Gryde * Sorte Ovn * Våde Ovn

Finland

* Halonen Cave * Wolf Cave

France

Aven Armand Aven Armand is a limestone cave located in the Cévennes National Park of France, in the Lozère ''département'', between Meyrueis and Sainte-Enimie known for the tallest known stalagmite of 30 meters. History It was first scientifically expl ...

Aven d'Orgnac Aven d'Orgnac is a cave located near Orgnac-l'Aven, in the Ardèche ''département'', France. it was discovered in 1935 by Robert de Joly Robert-Jacques de Joly (, Paris – , Montpellier) was a famous French caver and speleologist. Consid ...

* Barry Troglodyte Village * Caverne du Pont-d'Arc *

Caves of Arcy-sur-Cure The caves of Arcy-sur-Cure are a series of caves located on the commune of Arcy-sur-Cure, Burgundy, France. Some of them contained archaeological artefacts, from the Mousterian to Gallo-Roman times. Some hold remarkable parietal art, the sec ...

* Caves of Gargas *

Chauvet Cave The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (french: Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, ) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, as well as other evidence of Upper Pale ...

* Bournillon cave * Réseau de la

Dent de Crolles The Dent de Crolles () is a karstic mountain (2,062 m) of the Chartreuse Mountains range, north east of Grenoble, Isère, France. It has a characteristic "tooth-like" profile and is easily recognizable in the Isère Valley (Grésivaudan) in the G ...

Font-de-Gaume Font-de-Gaume is a cave near Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in the Dordogne départment of south-west France. The cave contains prehistoric polychrome cave paintings and engravings dating to the Magdalenian period. Discovered in 1901, more tha ...

Gouffre Berger The Gouffre Berger is a French cave discovered on 24 May 1953 by Joseph Berger, Bouvet, Ruiz de Arcaute and Marc Jouffrey. From 1953 to 1963, it was regarded as the deepest cave in the world at , relinquishing this title to the previous contender, ...

* Grotte des Demoiselles * Grottes du Cerdon * Grottes Pétrifiantes de Savonnières * Grottes de Presque * Jean Bernard System *

La Mansonnière cave La Mansonnière cave is a chalk cave in Rémalard en Perche in northern France. It was discovered in 1977. Discovery La Mansonnière cave was discovered by the Speleo Club du Rond Point de L'Aigle (SCRPLA) in 1977. The discovery was published in t ...

La Verna cave La Verna is a show cave in the commune of Sainte-Engrâce in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in France. of mined tunnel leads into the Salle de la Verna, the largest chamber in a show cave in the world. It has a diameter of , a height o ...

Lascaux Cave Lascaux ( , ; french: Grotte de Lascaux , "Lascaux Cave") is a network of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France. Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of ...

Les Combarelles Les Combarelles is a cave in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Les Eyzies de Tayac, Dordogne, France, which was inhabited by Cro-Magnon people between approximately 13,000 to 11,000 years ago. Holding more than 600 prehistoric engravings of animals an ...

* Niaux Cave *

Padirac Cave The Padirac Chasm (French: ''Gouffre de Padirac'') is a cave located near Gramat, in the Lot department, Occitanie region, France. Features The chasm itself is deep, with a diameter of approximately . Visitors descend 75 m via a lift or ...

Pech Merle Pech Merle is a cave which opens onto a hillside at Cabrerets in the Lot département of the Occitania region in France, about 32 km by road east of Cahors. It is one of the few prehistoric cave painting sites in France that remain open t ...

Rouffignac Cave The Rouffignac cave, in the French commune of Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac in the Dordogne département, contains over 250 engravings and cave paintings dating back to the Upper Paleolithic. In conjunction with other caves and abris of th ...

Vercors Cave System The Vercors Massif is a range in France consisting of rugged plateaus and mountains straddling the '' départements'' of Isère and Drôme in the French Prealps. It lies west of the Dauphiné Alps, from which it is separated by the rivers Dra ...

* Villars Cave

Georgia

Abrskil Cave Abrskil Cave or Abrskila ( ka, აბრსკილის მღვიმე) is a stalactite cave near Otapi village in Abkhazia, Georgia. It is named after the national hero of Abrskil — a parallel folk hero of the Greek Prometheus and ...

* Cave of Bethlehem * Krubera Cave *

New Athos Cave The New Athos Cave ( ab, Афон Ҿыцтәи аҳаҧы; ka, ახალი ათონის მღვიმე; russian: Новоафонская Пещера) also Novoafonskaya, Novy Afon Cave, or New Afon Cave is a karst cave in the Iv ...

* Sarma cave *

Satsurblia Cave Satsurblia Cave Natural Monument ( ka, საწურბლიას მღვიმე) is a paleoanthropological site located 1.2 km from Kumistavi village, Tsqaltubo Municipality, in the Imereti region of Georgia, 287 meters above sea l ...

* Tsona Cave

Germany

Aachtopf The Aachtopf () is Germany's biggest karst spring, south of the western end of the Swabian Jura near the town of Aach. It produces an average of 8,500 litres per second. Most of the water stems from the River Danube where it disappears undergro ...

Atta Cave The Atta Cave (german: Atta-Höhle) or Attendorn Dripstone Cave (''Attendorner Tropfsteinhöhle'') in Attendorn is one of the largest dripstone caves in Germany. The cave was discovered during the quarrying of limestone at the Bigge Valley Limest ...

* Balve Cave *

Barbarossa Cave The Barbarossa Cave (german: Barbarossahöhle) is an anhydrite cave (gypsum cave) in the Kyffhäuser Hills near Rottleben in the east German state of Thuringia. It is a cave with large caverns, grottos and lakes. The anhydrite has formed gypsum ...

Baumann's Cave Baumann's Cave (german: Baumannshöhle), located nearby Hermann's Cave, is a show cave in Rübeland in the district of Harz and is Germany's oldest show cave. The grotto was formed in the Devonian limestone of the Elbingerode Complex at leas ...

* Bing Cave *

Blauhöhle The Blauhöhle is the largest cave system in the Swabian Alps in southern Germany. The Blauhöhle presumably originated in a time when the Danube still flowed through the Blau valley. Since the shifting of the Danube, several small rivers, the ...

Blautopf The Blautopf (German for ''Blue pot'') is a spring that serves as the source of the river Blau in the karst landscape on the Swabian Jura's southern edge. It is located in Blaubeuren, Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (approximately w ...

Brillenhöhle The Brillenhöhle (german: Brillenhöhle, literally ''spectacles cave'') is a cave ruin, located west of Ulm on the Swabian Alb in south-western Germany, where archaeological excavations have documented human habitation since as early as 30,000 ...

* Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura * Daneil's Cave * Das verfluchte Jungfernloch * Dechen Cave * Devil's Cave * Easter Cave * Eberstadt Stalactite Cave * Erdmanns Cave *

Geissenklösterle Geissenklösterle () is an archaeological site of significance for the central European Upper Paleolithic, located near the town of Blaubeuren in the Swabian Jura in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany. First explored in 1963, the cave contains t ...

* Heimkehle *

Hermann's Cave Hermann's Cave (german: Hermannshöhle), together with Baumann's Cave, is one of two show caves in the village of Rübeland near the town of Wernigerode, in the district of Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The cave was formed out of the Devonian ...

* Hohler Fels * Hohlenstein-Stadel *

Iberg Dripstone Cave The Iberg Dripstone Cave (german: Iberger Tropfsteinhöhle) is a public cave and geology museum in southern Lower Saxony near Bad Grund, Germany. It is located on the western edge of the Harz mountains in the Iberg mountain at a height of a ...

* Kleine Feldhofer Grotte *

Lichtenstein Cave The Lichtenstein Cave, discovered in 1972, is an archaeological cave site near Dorste, Lower Saxony, Germany with a length of . The skeletal remains of 21 female humans and 19 males, dated to the Bronze Age, about 3,000 years ago were discovered. ...

Ofnet Caves The Ofnet Caves (german: Ofnethöhlen) are the remains of an underground karst system on the edge of the Nördlinger Ries in Germany. They are located on a limestone hill near Nördlingen, Bavaria. The caves became famous in 1908 when 33 prehisto ...

* Riesending cave * Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes * Schellenberg Ice Cave * Sirgenstein Cave * Unicorn Cave *

Vogelherd Cave The Vogelherd Cave (german: Vogelherdhöhle , or simply ''Vogelherd'') is located in the eastern Swabian Jura, south-western Germany. This limestone karst cave came to scientific and public attention after the 1931 discovery of the Upper Palaeol ...

* Volkmarskeller * Weingartenloch *

Wimsener Höhle The Wimsener Höhle (or Wimsen Cave) is Germany´s only water cave, which can be visited by boat. It is located in the municipal area of Hayingen on the Swabian Alb, about three kilometers north of Zwiefalten. Description The Wimsener Höhle or ...

Gibraltar

Gorham's Cave Gorham's Cave ( es, Cueva de Gorham, ) is a sea-level cave in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. Though not a sea cave, it is often mistaken for one. Considered to be one of the last known habitations of the Neanderthals in Europe, the ...

* Ibex Cave * Martin's Cave * St. Michael's Cave *

Vanguard Cave Vanguard Cave is a natural sea cave in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar which is part of the Gorham's Cave complex. This complex of four caves has been nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2016. The cave complex is one o ...

Greece

* Alepotrypa cave *

Apidima Cave The Apidima Cave (, ''Spilaio Apidima'') is a complex of five caves four small caves located on the western shore of Mani Peninsula in Southern Greece. A systematic investigation of the cave has yielded Neanderthal and ''Homo sapiens'' fossils f ...

Arkaliospilio Arkaliospilio is a cave located to the south west of Marathos. The entrance is 2.1 meters wide and 1 meter high. A large part of this cave is still unexplored. Roman, Byzantine and Medieval conches have been found inside the cave. It was used ...

Arkoudiotissa Cave Arkoudiotissa (, ) is a cave in the municipality of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Crete. From Gouverneto Monastery, the path to the cave is only accessible by foot. Arkoudiotissa ("she-bear"), is noted for its stalagmite which is said to look ...

* Blue Cave * Cave of Euripides * Cave of the Lakes * Corycian Cave * Davelis Cave * Dersios sinkhole * Doxa * Eileithyia Cave *

Franchthi Cave Franchthi Cave or Frankhthi Cave ( el, Σπήλαιον Φράγχθι) is an archaeological site overlooking Kiladha Bay, in the Argolic Gulf, opposite the village of Kiladha in southeastern Argolis, Greece. Humans first occupied the cave during ...

Gourgouthakas Gourgouthakas ( el, Γουργούθακας; from "small cutting on rocks, in which rain water is collected and from which animals drink water") is a cave located in the Lefka Ori mountains on the Greek island of Crete. It is the deepest cave in ...

Kleidi Cave Klithi or Kleidi Cave ( el, Σπήλαιο Κλειδί, ''Spelaio Kleidi'') is located to the north of the village of Kleidonia in the Ioannina regional unit and around west of the Megalakkos Cave, northwestern Greece. It is situated atop the ...

Megalakkos The Megalakkos ( el, Σπήλαιο Μεγάλακκος, ''Spelaio Megalokkos'') is a rock shelter located north of the village of Kleidonia in the Ioannina regional unit and around east of the Kleidi Cave, northwestern Greece. It sits atop th ...

* Ossa cave * Petralona Cave * Phyle Cave *

Propantes Propantes is a pothole on the mountain of Parnon within the borders of the Paliochori community of the Municipality of Leonidio in Greece. The entrance is about three by seven metres wide. The entrance shaft drops to -289m without the need for a ...

* Sacred caves of Crete * Stravomyti * Sykia (Voula) *

Theopetra cave Theopetra Cave is a limestone cave located in Theopetra village of Meteora municipality, Thessaly, Greece. It is situated on the northeast side of a limestone rock formation that is south of Kalambaka. The site has become increasingly important ...

Vari Cave The Vari Cave, also known as the Nympholyptos Cave ( el, Σπήλαιο Νυμφολήπτου Βάρης), is a small cave northeast of Vari in Attica, Greece. In classical antiquity the cave was used as a shrine dedicated to Apollo, Pan and t ...

Hungary

Aggtelek Karst Aggtelek Karst is a karst area in northern Hungary. The area is especially well known for its abundance of caves, which were recorded together with those in neighboring Slovakia in 1995 to the list of World Heritage Site under the name of the ...

Anna Cave The Anna Cave (also called ''Petőfi Cave'') is a natural limestone cave in Miskolc- Lillafüred, Hungary, near the waterfall. The cave was discovered in 1833, when opening a shaft in the limestone in order to provide the iron furnace at Hámor w ...

* Baradla-Domica Cave System *

Cave Bath The Cave Bath ( hu, Barlangfürdő []<( hu, barlang [] ‘cave’+( hu, fürdő [] ‘bath’) is a hot spring, thermal bath in a natural cave in Miskolctapolca. Barlangfurdobelso01 Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst The Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst is a UNESCO World Heritage site consisting of 712 caves spread out over a total area of along the border of Hungary and Slovakia. Background This UNESCO World Heritage site includes seven component ...

* Gellért Hill Cave *

István Cave The István Cave ('' St. Stephen's Cave'') is a limestone cave in Miskolc- Lillafüred, Northern Hungary. The cave was formed in the Triassic period and is about 710 m long. It was discovered in 1913. According to local legend, a dog fell into a ...

* Molnár János Cave * Rákóczi Cave * Szelim cave

Iceland

Búri In Norse mythology, Búri ( Old Norse: ), is a divinity god 'producer, father' of all other gods,Simek (Simek 2007:47). and an early ancestor of the Æsir gods of the principal pantheon in Norse religion. Búri was licked free from salty rime sto ...

* The Caves of Ægissíða * Grjótagjá * Hellnahellir *

Kverkfjöll Kverkfjöll (; 1,764 m) is a mountain range situated on the north-eastern border of the glacier Vatnajökull in Iceland. With the glacier Kverkjökull, it is between the Vatnajökull glacier and the Dyngjufjöll mountains. The mountains are act ...

* Landmannahellir *

Surtshellir Surtshellir () is a lava cave located in western Iceland, around 60 km from the settlement of Borgarnes. Approximately a mile in length, it is one of the longest such caves in the country. It was the first known lava tube in the world, at l ...

* Víðgelmir

Ireland

* Aillwee Cave * Caves of Kesh * Cloyne Cave *

Crag Cave Crag Cave is a cave in Ireland, located just outside Castleisland, County Kerry. Formed in elevated limestone rock, the system extends to of surveyed passage, on two levels. It is the 7th-longest cave system in the Republic of Ireland, and the ...

* Doolin Cave *

Dunmore Caves Dunmore Cave () is a limestone solutional cave in Ballyfoyle, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is formed in Lower Carboniferous (Viséan) limestone of the Clogrenan Formation. It is a show cave open to the public, particularly well known for its ...

Fintan's Grave Fintan's Grave is a mythological cave on the Irish mountain (now hill) Tul Tuinde (Hill of the Wave) in the Arra Mountains near Lough Derg. Supposedly, Fintan mac Bóchra In Irish mythology Fintan mac Bóchra (modern spelling: Fionntán), k ...

* Kelly's Cave * Killavullen Caves *

Marble Arch Caves The Marble Arch Caves are a series of natural limestone caves located near the village of Florencecourt in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The caves are named after the nearby Marble Arch, a natural limestone arch at the upstream end of Cla ...

* Mitchelstown Caves *

Noon's Hole Noon's Hole ( Irish grid ref H12684431) lies about 5 km northwest of the centre of Boho, in the townland of Old Barr in the parish of Devenish, County Fermanagh, close to the border with Boho parish. The cave is under part of the escarpme ...

Pollatoomary Pollatoomary is the deepest explored underwater cave in Ireland. It has been explored to an underwater depth of . The explored limit of Pollatoomary is also deeper underwater than that of the terminal sump in Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset, Eng ...

* Pollnagollum *

Shannon Cave Shannon Cave is an active stream passage cave which straddles the border of County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland. At vertical depth, it stands joint sixth with Poulnagree in County Clare in the deepe ...

St Patrick's Purgatory St Patrick's Purgatory is an ancient pilgrimage site on Station Island in Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland. According to legend, the site dates from the fifth century, when Christ showed Saint Patrick a cave, sometimes referred to as a ...

Italy

* Abisso Bonetti *

Arene Candide The Arene Candide, ( it, Caverna delle Arene Candide, ''Cavern of the White sands'') is an archaeological site in Finale Ligure, Liguria, Italy. Its name was derived from the eponymous dune of white (''candida'') sand (''arena'') that could be fo ...

* Blue Grotto *

Borgio Verezzi Caves The Borgio Verezzi Caves (Italian: ''Grotte di Borgio Verezzi''), also named Valdemino, are a karst cave system located in the municipality of Borgio Verezzi, in the province of Savona, Liguria. They are a show cave. Overview Located in the out ...

Castelcivita Caves The Castelcivita Caves (Italian: ''Grotte di Castelcivita'') are a karst cave system located in the municipality of Castelcivita (and partially in Controne), in the province of Salerno, Campania, southern Italy. Overview Their second name, "Sp ...

Castellana Caves The Castellana Caves (Italian: ''Grotte di Castellana'') are a karst cave system located in the municipality of Castellana Grotte, in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. Overview The caves, discovered in 1938 by the speleo ...

Cave of Dogs The Cave of Dogs (Italian: ''Grotta del Cane'') is a cave near Naples, Italy. Volcanic gases seeping into the cave give the air inside a high concentration of carbon dioxide. Dogs held inside would faint; at one time this was a tourist attracti ...

* Coreca Caves * Deer Cave * Duino Mithraeum *

Ear of Dionysius The Ear of Dionysius ( it, Orecchio di Dionisio) is a limestone cave carved out of the Temenites hill in the city of Syracuse, on the island of Sicily in Italy. Its name, given by the painter Michelangelo da Caravaggio, comes from its similar ...

Frasassi Caves The Frasassi Caves ( Italian: ''Grotte di Frasassi'') are a karst cave system in the municipality of Genga, Italy, in the province of Ancona, Marche. They are among the most famous show caves in Italy. History The caves, discovered by a group o ...

* Grotta Bianca * Grotta del Castiglione *

Grotta del Cavallo The Grotta del Cavallo or Cavallo Cave (Italian:"Cave of the Horse") is a limestone cave in the region of Apulia, Southern Italy, near Nardò south of Taranto. The cave is about above present sea level. It has a rounded entrance, wide and ...

* Grotta del Cavallone * Grotta del Pisco * Grotta dell'Addaura * Grotta dell'Arco * Grotta dell'Arsenale * Grotta dell'Artiglieria * Grotta delle Felci * Grotta Delle Prazziche * Grotta dello Smeraldo *

Grotta di Ispinigoli The Grotta di Ispinigoli is a karst cave in the Supramonte range, near Dorgali, Sardinia, Italy. Overview One of the largest caves on the island, it contains the tallest column, the tallest in Europe and one of the tallest in the world, measur ...

* Grotta di Matromania * Grotte di Pilato * Grotta Gigante * Grotta Grande Del Ciolo * Grotta Piccola Del Ciolo *

Grotta Regina del Carso Grotta Regina del Carso ("Queen of Karst cave", sl, Jama Kraljica Krasa) is a Karst cave in the village of ''San Michele del Carso'' ( Slovene: ''Vrh'') in the municipality of Savogna d'Isonzo (Gorizia, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy). The cave is ...

* Grotta Verde * Monte Kronio * Neptune's Grotto * Nereo Cave * Paglicci Cave * Pastena Caves *

Pertosa Caves The Pertosa Caves ( it, Grotte di Pertosa), co-officially named Pertosa-Auletta Caves ( it, Grotte di Pertosa-Auletta) since 2012, are a karst show cave system located in the municipality of Pertosa, in the province of Salerno, Campania, Italy. ...

Romito Cave The Romito cave ( it, Grotta del Romito) is a natural limestone cave in the Lao Valley of Pollino National Park, near the town of Papasidero in Calabria, Italy. Stratigraphic record of the first excavation confirmed prolonged paleo-human occupat ...

Toirano Caves The Toirano Caves (Italian: ''Grotte di Toirano'') are a karst cave system in the municipality of Toirano, in the province of Savona, Liguria, Italy. Overview The area is situated close to the town of Toirano and few kilometers to the Ligurian P ...

Kosovo

* Marble Cave * Gryka e Madhe Cave * Shpella e Kallabes * Shpella e Karamakazit * Shpella e Radavcit

Latvia

* Gutmanis Cave * Riežupe sand caves * Dauģene sand caves * Patkula Cave * Cinderdag Labyrinth * Great Bat Cave * Sooty Cave * Flea Cave * Cave of Happiness * Great Bay Lang Cave * Liv Sacrifice Caves

Malta

* Blue Grotto * Ghar Dalam * Għar ix-Xiħ * Ghar Lapsi *

Ninu's Cave Ninu's Cave is a cave in Xagħra, Gozo, Malta. Ninu's Cave was discovered by local resident Joseph Rapa in 1888 while digging a well under a private house. Ninu's Cave is not far from another underground feature, Xerri's Grotto. The cave is form ...

* Ras id-Dawwara *

Xerri's Grotto Xerri's Grotto is a cave in Xagħra, Gozo, Malta. It was discovered by local resident Anthony Xerri in 1923 or 1924 while digging a well under a private house. Xerri's Grotto is not far from another underground feature, Ninu's Cave. The grotto is ...

North Macedonia

* Alilica * Pešna

Norway

* Greftkjelen * Greftsprekka * Grønligrotta * Jarlshola *

Jordbrugrotta Jordbrugrotta is a cave in the upper parts of by the river in Rana municipality in Nordland county in Norway. The cave is named after the farm Jordbrua further down the valley. The cave is situated about two kilometers south of the dam at Kal ...

* Larshullet * Oskola-Kristihola * Radiohola *

Raggejavreraige Raggejavreraige or Råggejávrrerájgge is a cave located in a mountain above the Hellemofjorden in the municipality of Hamarøy in Nordland county, Norway. The cave is located near the lake Råggejávrre, about south of the village of Musken. Rå ...

* Setergrotta *

Svarthola Svarthola or Vistehola is a cave and an archaeological site, located in Randaberg municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The deep cavern is located on the ''Viste farm'', about northwest of the city of Stavanger, situated near the shore of th ...

* Tjoarvekrajgge * Trollkirka

Poland

* Bańdzioch Kominiarski * Jaskinia Czarna * Jaskinia Kozia * Jaskinia Miętusia * Jaskinia Mylna * Jaskinia Niedźwiedzia *

Jaskinia Raj Paradise Cave ( pl, Jaskinia Raj, italic=no, ) is a horizontal karstic limestone cave located inside the Malik hill, to the south of Kielce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodship, Poland. It is part of the "Red tourist trail Chęciny - Kielce" in the Świ ...

Jaskinia Wielka Śnieżna Jaskinia Wielka Śnieżna ("great snowy cave") is a limestone cave system in Mount Małołączniak in the Western Tatra Mountains, of the Carpathian Mountains System, in southern Poland. The cave is within Tatra National Park. With the length of ...

* Paradise Cave * Ptasia Studnia * Radochów Cave * Smocza Jama * Śnieżna Studnia

Portugal

* Almonda Cave *

Cave of Aroeira The Cave of Aroeira is an archaeological and paleoanthropological site in the Portuguese Estremadura Limestone Massif. The cave is located in the village of Almonda, in the civil parish of Zibreira, in the municipality of Torres Novas in the d ...

* Cave of Pedra Furada * Cave of Pego do Diabo * Cave of Salemas * Escoural Cave *

Furnas do Cavalum The Furnas do Cavalum (Caves of Cavalum in English) are a group of four caves located in Machico, Madeira. Named after a local legend about a demon called Cavalum, who was imprisoned in the cave. These lava tubes are of great importance allowing ...

* Mira de Aire Caves * Moinhos Velhos Cave * São Vicente Caves * Torres Cave

Romania

* Bears' Cave * Coliboaia Cave *

Cuciulat Cave Cuciulat Cave ( ro, Peștera Cuciulat) is located on the Podișul Someșan plateau, near the village Cuciulat in the commune Letca, Sălaj County, Romania. It contains the oldest known cave paintings in Central Europe. The cave has been known to ...

* Movile Cave * Peștera cu Oase *

Peștera Muierilor Peștera Muierilor, or Peștera Muierii ( Romanian for "The Women's Cave", or "The Woman's Cave"), is an elaborate cave system located in the Baia de Fier commune, Gorj County, Romania. It contains abundant cave bear remains, as well as a human s ...

* Peștera Vântului *

Scărișoara Cave Scărișoara Cave (, hu, Aranyosfői-jégbarlang), is one of the biggest ice caves in the Apuseni Mountains of Romania, in a part of Carpathian chain. It is considered a show cave and one of the natural wonders of Romania. It has also been descr ...

Tăușoare-Zalion Reserve The Tăușoare-Zalion Reserve is a cave system located in the deeply forested areas of the Rodna Mountains, Bistrița-Năsăud County, in Romania. The Tăușoare Cave was discovered in 1955 by a teacher, Leon Bârte. Located at an altitude of , ...

* Topolnița Cave

Serbia

Brežđe Brežđe ( sr, Брежђе) is a village in the Mionica municipality, Kolubara District in Serbia. Šalitrena Cave Šalitrena Cave ( sr, Шалитрена пећина, Šalitrena pećina) is located in the village area, in the gorge of ...

Cave Church A cave monastery is a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities. The 3rd-century monk St. Antony the Great, known as the founder of monasticism, lived in a cave. *Albania ** Qafthanë Cave Church, cave church near Urakë ** S ...

* Cerje Cave * Degurić Cave * Hadži-Prodan's Cave *

Kađenica The Smoke Cave or Kađenica is a cave-church located in the village of Dljin near Čačak on the right bank of the Zapadna Morava, one kilometre upstream from Ovčar Banja, Serbia. During the Hadži Prodan's revolt in 1814, people found refug ...

Lazareva Pećina The Lazareva Pećina, which translates Lazar's Cave, is the longest explored cave in Serbia. Located in Bor municipality, near Zlot, the cave is also sometimes referred to as Zlotska Cave. According to 2012's ''Recent Landform Evolution: The C ...

* Pešturina *

Petnica Cave Petnica Cave is located in the village of Petnica, near the city of Valjevo, Serbia. The cave has been popular for tourism since at least the 19th century, when it was one of the three most popular caving Caving – also known as spelunkin ...

* Potpeć Cave *

Rajkova cave Rajko's Cave ( sr, Рајкова пећина, Rajkova pećina) is a cave near the copper and gold mines of Majdanpek in eastern Serbia. See also * List of caves in Serbia List of caves in Serbia. See also * List of caves * Speleology ...

Resava Cave Resava Cave ( sr, Ресавска пећина, Resavska pećina) or Resavska Cave is a cave near Jelovac in eastern Serbia, about from Despotovac. It is one of the largest cave systems in Serbia, with the corridors about long. Geography ...

Risovača Cave Risovača Cave, ( sr-cyr, Пећина Рисовача, Pećina Risovača) is situated at the very entrance of the town of Aranđelovac in central Serbia around above the Kubršnica river valley. It is one of the most important archaeological s ...

* Stopića cave

Slovakia

* Belianska Cave *

Bystrianska Cave Bystrianska Cave is a limestone cave located on the southern slopes of the Nizke Tatry Mountains, along the road towards Banska Bystrica, at the southern edge of the town of Bystrá, in the Brezno District, Banskobystrický region, in Slovakia. ...

* Demänovská Cave of Liberty * Demänovská Ice Cave *

Dobšiná Ice Cave Dobšiná Ice Cave ( sk, Dobšinská ľadová jaskyňa; hu, Dobsinai-jégbarlang) is an ice cave in Slovakia, near the mining town of Dobšiná in the Slovak Paradise. Since 2000 it has been included on the UNESCO World Heritage list as a part of ...

Domica Cave The Domica cave is situated on the south-western border of the ''Silicka planina Plateau'' south-east of Plesivec in the Rožňava District of the Košice Region in southern Slovakia and in combination with the Baradla cave represents the most ...

Driny Driny is a limestone cave in West Slovakia in the Little Carpathians Mountains. It is located around 2 km southwest of the village of Smolenice. The cave's entrance altitude is 399 m. The first attempt to enter the cave was made by Prus ...

Gombasek Cave Gombasek Cave or Gombasecká jaskyňa (in Slovak) and Gombaszögi-barlang (in Hungarian) is a karst cave in the Slovak Karst, Slovakia. It is named after the settlement of ''Gombasek'', which belongs to the village of Slavec. It is located ...

* Harmanecká Cave *

Jasovská Cave Jasov Cave ( sk, Jasovská jaskyňa, and hu, Jászói barlang) is a speleothem limestone cave and archaeological site in the Slovak Karst in Slovakia. It is located near the village of Jasov, around from Košice city. History The cave w ...

Krásnohorská Cave Krásnohorská Cave ( sk, Krásnohorská Jaskyňa) is a karst cave situated at the northern foot of the Silická planina Plain, in the Slovak Karst, 6.5 km southeast of Rožňava, in Slovakia. With unique natural decorations of bizarre shapes a ...

Ochtinská Aragonite Cave Ochtinská Aragonite Cave ( sk, Ochtinská aragonitová jaskyňa, hu, Martonházi-aragonitbarlangthe Magyar Wikipedia article uses a different title) is a unique aragonite cave situated in southern Slovakia, near Rožňava. Although only 300 m lo ...

Važecká Cave Važecká Cave ( sk, Važecká jaskyňa, and hu, Vázseci-barlang) is a long stalactite limestone cave. Lying at an elevation of , it is located near the village of Važec, in the Liptov Basin, near the Biely Váh River, on the northern edge of t ...

Slovenia

Cross Cave Cross Cave ( sl, Križna jama, german: Kreuzberghöhle), also named Cold Cave under Cross Mountain (), is a cave in Slovenia's Lož Valley, in the area between the Lož Karst Field, Cerknica Karst Field, and Bloke Plateau. The cave is named aft ...

Divje Babe Divje Babe () is a Karst cave and archaeological park overlooking the Idrijca River in Slovenia. It is noted for its Paleolithic remains, including the worked bone of cave bear known as the Divje Babe Flute, which has been interpreted as a Neander ...

* Hell Cave *

Krka Cave Krka Cave ( sl, Krška jama) is a horizontal karst cave and an occasional source of the Krka River in Dry Carniola, central Slovenia. It lies in a pocket valley between the villages of Trebnja Gorica to the east and Gradiček to the west, north ...

Planina Cave Planina Cave ( sl, Planinska jama), formerly also Little Castle Cave () after Little Castle in the vicinity of its entrance, is one of the longest Slovenian active caves. It is a huge tunnel and the subterranean bed of the Unica River. It is loc ...

Postojna Cave Postojna Cave ( sl, Postojnska jama; german: Adelsberger Grotte; it, Grotte di Postumia) is a long karst cave system near Postojna, southwestern Slovenia. It is the second-longest cave system in the country (following the Migovec System) as wel ...

Potok Cave Potok Cave ( sl, Potočka zijalka or ''Potočka zijavka'') is a cave in northern Slovenia, declared a high-elevation archaeological and paleontological site, occupied approximately 35,000 years BP (before present) by anatomically modern humans o ...

Škocjan Caves Škocjan Caves (; sl, Škocjanske jame, it, Grotte di San Canziano) is a cave system in Slovenia. Due to its exceptional significance, Škocjan Caves was entered on UNESCO’s list of natural and cultural World Heritage Sites in 1986. Internati ...

* System Migovec *

Vilenica Cave Vilenica Cave or Vilenica Cave at Lokev ( sl, Jama Vilenica pri Lokvi) is the oldest show cave in Europe. The first tourists to the cave were recorded in 1633. It is located next to the village of Lokev in the municipality of Sežana on the Kars ...

* Vrtoglavica *

Weaver Cave Weaver Cave ( sl, Tkalca jama), also known as Inlet Cave (), is a long ponor cave in southwest Slovenia. It runs from the west (downstream) side of the Rak Škocjan Valley, where it has two entrances, and continues into Planina Cave. It is tra ...

Spain

Altamira Altamira may refer to: People *Altamira (surname) Places * Cave of Altamira, a cave in Cantabria, Spain famous for its paintings and carving *Altamira, Pará, a city in the Brazilian state of Pará * Altamira, Huila, a town and municipality in ...

Armintxe Cave Armintxe Cave in Lekeitio (Spain) is an important Paleolithic rock art site, estimated to date from between 12,000 and 14,500 years ago. Location Armintxe Cave is situated in the Lekeitio municipality of the Biscay province, in the Basque Coun ...

* Canelobre Caves *

Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain The Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain () 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, Grav ...

Cave of Chufín The cave of Chufín is located in the town of Riclones in Rionansa (Cantabria), Spain. Situated at the confluence of the Lamasón and Nansa rivers, several caves ornamented with rock art pock the steep slopes above the water. Chufín is one of ...

Cave of El Castillo The Cueva del Castillo, or Cave of the Castle, is an archaeological site within the complex of the Caves of Monte Castillo, in Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain. The archaeological stratigraphy has been divided into around 19 layers, depending ...

* Cave of El Soplao *

Cave of La Pasiega Cueva de La Pasiega, or Cave of La Pasiega, situated in the Spanish municipality of Puente Viesgo, is one of the most important monuments of Paleolithic art in Cantabria. It is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since July 2008, as part ...

* Cave of Niño * Cave of the Barranc del Migdia * Cave of Valporquero * Caves in Cantabria * Caves of King Cintolo * Caves of Nerja * Caves of Valeron *

Coves dels Hams The Coves dels Hams (; es, Cuevas dels Hams; en, "Fishhook Caves") are a Solutional cave system on the east coast of the Spanish Balearic Island of Mallorca. The caves are in the municipality of Manacor, about 1 km to the west of the town o ...

* Cueva de la Fuente * Cueva de la Pileta * Cueva de los Casares * Cueva de los Murciélagos * Cueva de los Verdes * Cueva de Montesinos *

Cueva del Viento Cueva del Viento ("Wind Cave") is the largest lava tube system in Europe, and the sixth largest in the world, behind a series of lava tubes in Hawaii. It is also considered the most complex volcanic tube in the world, due to its morphology of seve ...

Cuevas de El Castillo The Cueva del Castillo, or Cave of the Castle, is an archaeological site within the complex of the Caves of Monte Castillo, in Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain. The archaeological stratigraphy has been divided into around 19 layers, depending ...

Cuevas de la Araña The Coves de l'Aranya (in original Catalan language, known in English as the Spider Caves and in Spanish Cuevas de la Araña) are a group of caves in the municipality of Bicorp in València, eastern Spain. The caves are in the valley of the river ...

* Cuevas de Sorbas *

Cuevas del Drach The Caves of Drach (modern Catalan spelling: ; es, Cuevas del Drach; ) are four great caves that are located in the island of Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, extending to a depth of 25 m and reaching approximately 4 km in length. The ...

Four Doors cave site The Four Doors (in Spanish ''Cuatro Puertas'') site, also known as , is a complex of caves in the south of the municipality of Telde, Gran Canaria. The ''Cuatro Puertas'' site is named after its most spectacular cave, the most emblematic of Gr ...

* Fuentemolinos cave *

Grotte Casteret The Grotte Casteret, also known by its Spanish names Gruta de Casteret or Gruta Helada de Casteret, is a limestone ice cave, located high in the Spanish Pyrenees, within the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. Discovered in 1926 by Norbert Cast ...

* Gruta de las Maravillas * Las Caldas cave * Ojo Guareña * Ordesa Cascada * Painted Cave *

Praileaitz Cave The Praileaitz Cave (Basque for ''Rock of the Monk'' cave) is located in the municipality of Deba (Gipuzkoa, Basque Country). Early in August 2006, various paleolithic cave paintings were found during an archaeological excavation - a non-figur ...

Santa Cueva de Covadonga The Santa Cueva de Nuestra Señora de Covadonga (English: the Holy Cave of Our Lady of Covadonga) is a Catholic sanctuary located in Asturias, northern Spain. It is a cave in the Picos de Europa mountains, which gives its name to the parish of C ...

* Santuario de la Cueva Santa * Sidrón Cave *

Tito Bustillo Cave The Tito Bustillo Cave is a prehistoric rock shelter located in the small town of Ribadesella, in the autonomous community of Asturias, Spain. The cave was inhabited by humans (cro-magnon) before the year 10,000 BC. Due to the collapse of the ro ...

Sweden

* Coral Cave * Hoverbergsgrottan * Lummelunda Cave

Switzerland

* Grotte aux Fées *

Hölloch The Hölloch ( en, Hellhole) is a long cave in the municipality Muotathal in Switzerland. In addition to being the second longest cave in Europe, it is also notable for having a depth of . The Hölloch is an example of a karst cave system. Ex ...

Saint-Léonard underground lake __NOTOC__ Saint-Léonard underground lake (French ''Lac souterrain de Saint-Léonard'') is located at Saint Léonard in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Geography It is formed where a bed of Triassic gypsum, emplaced within impervious Carboni ...

Siebenhengste-Hohgant-Höhle Siebenhengste-Hohgant-Höhle is a cave located in Switzerland, in the Canton of Bern north of Lake Thun, between the villages of Eriz and Habkern. The cave network formed in the Urgonian Limestone Formation (Aptian age). The cave was first ...

* St. Beatus Caves *

Wildkirchli Wildkirchli () are three interlinked caves situated in the Alpstein massif in the Appenzell Innerrhoden canton of Switzerland, north-east of Mount Säntis Switzerland. The caves are located at a height of . They are notable for the traces of Pal ...

Turkey

* Akhayat sinkhole * Ayvaini Cave * Ballıca Cave * Belbaşı * Beldibi Cave * Buzluk * Cave dwellings of Ahlat * Çayırköy Cave * Cennet and Cehennem#Cehennem, Cehennem Cave * Cehennemağzı Cave * Cennet and Cehennem#Cennet, Cennet Cave * Cumayanı Cave * Damlataş Cave * Derebucak Çamlık Caves * Dupnisa Cave * Erçek Cave * Egma Sinkhole * Gilindire Cave * Gökgöl Cave * Ilıksu Cave * İnağzı Cave * Inkaya Cave * İnsuyu Cave * Karaca Cave * Karain Cave * Kızılelma Cave * Kocain Cave * Nimara Cave * Oylat Cave * Pınargözü Cave * Sofular Cave * Tilkiler Cave * Yarımburgaz Cave * Yenesu Cave * Zeytintaşı Cave

Ukraine

* Atlantida (cave), Atlantida * Near Caves * Odessa Catacombs * Optimisticeskaja, Optymistychna * Priest's Grotto * Vyalova cave

United Kingdom

* Alum Pot * Aquamole Pot * Aveline's Hole * Badger Pot * Bakers pit * Bar Pot * Blue John Cavern * Boho Caves * Boxhead Pot * Cathole Cave * Charterhouse Cave * Chislehurst Caves * Clearwell Caves * Cleeves Cove, Cleeves Cove cave * Cox's cave * Crackpot Cave * Creswell Crags * Crystal Cave, Bermuda, Crystal Cave * Dan yr Ogof * Death's Head Hole * Disappointment Pot * Dog Hole Cave * Ease Gill Caverns * Eastwater Cavern * Eden Sike Cave * Excalibur Pot * Father Foote's Cave * Fingal's Cave * Flood Entrance Pot * Gaping Gill * Short Drop Cave - Gavel Pot System, Gavel Pot * GB Cave * Giant's Hole * Goatchurch Cavern * Gough's Cave * Great Douk Cave * Great Masson Cavern * Great Rutland Cavern * Heathery Burn Cave * Ingleborough Cave * Jib Tunnel * Juniper Gulf * Kent's Cavern * Kirkdale Cave * La Cotte de St Brelade * Lamb Leer * Langcliffe Pot * Long Churn Cave * Long Drop Cave * Longwood Swallet * Lost John's Cave * Lost Pot * Manor Farm Swallet *

* Mossdale Caverns * Mother Ludlam's Cave * Mother Shipton's Cave * Nidderdale Caves *

* Ogof Agen Allwedd * Ogof Craig a Ffynnon * Ogof Draenen * Ogof Ffynnon Ddu * Ogof Hen Ffynhonnau * Ogof Hesp Alyn * Ogof Llyn Parc * Ogof y Daren Cilau * Otter Hole * Oxlow Cavern * Pate Hole * Peak Cavern * Pen Park Hole * Pierre's Pot * Poole's Cavern * Portbraddon Cave * Porth Yr Ogof * Pridhamsleigh Cavern * Rat Hole, Gaping Gill, Rat Hole * Reed's Cave * Reservoir Hole * Rhino Rift * Rowten Pot * Rumbling Hole * Ryedale Windypits *

* Shatter Cave * Short Drop Cave - Gavel Pot System, Short Drop Cave * Sidcot Swallet * Simpson Pot * Skirwith Cave * Slaughter Stream Cave * Smoo Cave * Speedwell Cavern * St Cuthbert's Swallet * Stoke Lane Slocker * Stream Passage Pot * Stump Cross Caverns * Swildon's Hole * Swinsto Cave * Thor's Cave * Three Counties System * Thrupe Lane Swallet * Titan (cave), Titan * Treak Cliff Cavern * Uamh an Claonaite * Upper Flood Swallet * Weathercote Cave * White Scar Caves * Wookey Hole Caves * Yordas Cave

Oceania

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Australia

* Abercrombie Caves * Abrakurrie Cave * Ashford Caves * Borenore Caves * Buchan Caves * Bungonia Caves * Camooweal Caves National Park * Capricorn Caves * Cave Gardens (South Australia), Cave Gardens * Cliefden Caves * Cloggs Cave * Devil's Lair * Drovers Cave National Park * Engelbrecht Cave * Exit Cave, Tasmania, Exit Cave * Fireclay Caverns * Fossil Cave * Gunns Plains Cave * Hastings Caves State Reserve * Hermit's Cave * Hippo's Yawn * Jenolan Caves * Koonalda Cave * Koongine Cave * Kutikina Cave * London Bridge (New South Wales), London Bridge * Mammoth Cave (Western Australia), Mammoth Cave * Mermaids Cave * Moondyne Cave * Mount Etna Caves National Park * Murrawijinie Cave * Naracoorte Caves * New Guinea II cave * Niggly Cave, Tasmania, Niggly Cave * Ngilgi Cave * Old Homestead Cave * Pindar Cave * Princess Margaret Rose Cave * St Michaels Cave (Avalon Beach), St Michaels Cave * Tarragal Caves * Tjunti * Wellington Caves * Willi Willi Caves * Wombeyan Caves * Wyanbene Caves * Yarrangobilly Caves

Cook Islands

* Anatakitaki Cave * To'uri Cave * Vaitaongo Cave

Federal States of Micronesia

* Tonotan Guns and Caves

Guam

* Mahlac Pictograph Cave * Talagi Pictograph Cave * Yokoi's Cave

Nauru

* Moqua Caves

New Caledonia

* Pindai Caves

New Zealand

* Aurora Cave * Cave Stream, Broken River Cave * Bulmer Cavern * Cathedral Caves * Clifden Limestone Caves * Cracroft Caverns * Ellis Basin cave system * Gardner's Gut * Harwood Hole * Honeycomb Hill Cave * Metro Cave / Te Ananui Cave * Moncks Cave * Nettlebed Cave * Ngarua Caves * Rawhiti Cave * Riwaka River, Riwaka Resurgence * Ruakuri Cave * Te Ana-au Caves * Waitomo Caves * Waitomo Glowworm Cave * Wiri Lava Cave

Samoa

* Falemauga Caves

Tuvalu

* Caves of Nanumanga

Vanuatu

* Yeyenwu

North America

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Belize

* Actun Box Ch'iich' * Actun Tunichil Muknal * Barton Creek Cave * Che Chem Ha Cave * Chiquibul Cave System * Great Blue Hole * Midnight Terror Cave * Nohoch Che'en

Bermuda

* Crystal Cave (Bermuda), Crystal Cave

Canada

* Arctomys Cave * Artlish Caves Provincial Park * Bluefish Caves * Booming Ice Chasm * Cadomin Cave * Canyon Creek Ice Cave * Castleguard Cave * Cave and Basin National Historic Site * Cavernicole Cave * Charlie Lake Cave * Close to the Edge (cave), Close to the Edge * Cody Caves * Gargantua (cave), Gargantua * Mount Cory (Alberta)#The "Hole in the Wall", The "Hole in the Wall" * Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park * Nakimu Caves * Mount Tupper#Raspberry Rising Cave, Raspberry Rising Cave * Trou du Diable * Warsaw Caves

El Salvador

* Holy Spirit Grotto

Guatemala

* Actún Can * Candelaria Caves * Chiquibul Cave System * Cuevas del Silvino * Grutas de Lanquín * Naj Tunich

Honduras

* Cuevas de Taulabé * Cuyamel Caves * Talgua caves

Mexico

* Balankanche * Cacahuamilpa Caverns, Cacahuamilpa Cave * Cave of the Crystals * Cave of Swallows * Chan Hol * Chevé Cave * Chiquihuitillos * Choo-Ha * Coxcatlan Cave * Cueva de Villa Luz * Devil's Throat at Punta Sur * Frightful Cave * Guilá Naquitz Cave * Grutas de Cacahuamilpa National Park * Grutas de García * Jolja' * Juxtlahuaca * Loltun Cave * Ndaxagua * Sistema Dos Ojos * Sistema Nohoch Nah Chich * Sistema Ox Bel Ha * Sistema Sac Actun * Tolantongo#the grottos, Tolantongo * Zacatón

Panama

* Bayano Caves

United States

* Aeolus Cave, Vermont * Airmen's Cave, Texas * Alabaster Caverns State Park, Oklahoma * Antelope Cave, Arizona * Ape Cave, Washington * Arnold Lava Tube System, Oregon * Ash Hollow State Historical Park, Ash Hollow Cave, Nebraska * Baker Cave, Texas * Bandera Volcano Ice Cave, New Mexico * Bat Cave and Cascade Caverns State Nature Preserves, Bat Cave, Kentucky * Bat Cave mine, Arizona * Batcheller's Cave, New Hampshire * Beaver Valley Rock Shelter Site, Delaware * Bechan Cave, Utah * Bell Witch Cave, Tennessee * Big Bone Cave, Tennessee * Big Four Ice Caves, Washington * Black Chasm Cave, California * Blanchard Springs Caverns, Arkansas * Blowhole Cave, Utah * Blue Spring Cave, Tennessee * Bluespring Caverns, Indiana * Bluff Dweller's Cave, Missouri * Bobcat Trail Habitation Cave, Hawaii * Boone's Cave Park, North Carolina * Boyd Cave, Oregon * Boyden Cave, California * Bracken Cave, Texas * Bridal Cave, Missouri * Buckner Cave, Indiana * Bull Shoals Caverns, Arkansas * Bull Thistle Cave Archaeological Site, Virginia * Burnet Cave, New Mexico * Burro Flats Painted Cave, California * California Caverns, California * Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico * Carter Caves State Resort Park, Cascade Cave, Kentucky * Cascade Caverns, Texas * Cass Cave, West Virginia * Cathedral Caverns State Park, Alabama * Cave-in-Rock State Park, Cave-in-Rock, Illinois * Cave of the Bells, Arizona * Cave of the Mounds, Wisconsin * Cave of the Winds (Colorado), Cave of the Winds, Colorado * Cave of the Winds (New York), Cave of the Winds, New York * Cave Without a Name, Texas * Caverns of Sonora, Texas * Caves of St. Louis, Missouri * Charles Town Cave, West Virginia * Cheese Cave, Washington * Cherney Maribel Caves County Park, Wisconsin * Clarks Cave, Virginia * Clarksville Cave, New York * Cliff Cave County Park, Cliff Cave, Missouri * Cold Water Spring State Preserve, Cold Water Cave, Iowa * Colossal Cave (Arizona), Colossal Cave, Arizona * Colossal Cavern, Colossal Cave, Kentucky * Conkling Cavern, New Mexico * Coronado Cave, Arizona * Cosmic Cavern, Arkansas * Coudersport Ice Mine, Pennsylvania * Craighead Caverns, Tennessee * Crystal Cave (Sequoia National Park), Crystal Cave, Sequoia National Park, California * Crystal Cave (Kentucky), Crystal Cave, Kentucky * Crystal Cave (Ohio), Crystal Cave, Ohio * Crystal Cave (Pennsylvania), Crystal Cave, Pennsylvania * Crystal Cave (Wisconsin), Crystal Cave, Wisconsin * Crystal Cavern, Alabama * Crystal Grottoes, Maryland * Cumberland Bone Cave, Maryland * Cumberland Caverns, Tennessee * Current River Cavern, Missouri * Danger Cave, Utah * Decorah Ice Cave State Preserve, Iowa * Derrick Cave, Oregon * DeSoto Caverns, Alabama * Devil's Den Cave, Florida * Devil's Kitchen (cave), Devil's Kitchen, Michigan * Devils Hole, Nevada * Diamond Caverns, Kentucky * Dixie Caverns, Virginia * Dunbar Cave State Park, Tennessee * Dust Cave, Alabama * Eagle Cave, Wisconsin * Ellenville Fault-Ice Caves, Ellenville Fault Ice Caves, New York * Eleven Jones Cave, Kentucky * Ellison's Cave, Georgia * Endless Caverns, Virginia * False Kiva, Utah * Fantastic Caverns, Missouri * Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama * Fern Grotto, Hawaii * Fisher Ridge Cave System, Kentucky * Florida Caverns, Florida * Fort Rock Cave, Oregon * Fox Cave, New Mexico * Franktown Cave, Colorado * Gap Cave, Virginia * Gardner Cave, Washington * Gillespie Cave, Tennessee * Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, Glenwood Caverns, Colorado * Glover's Cave, Kentucky * Goochland Cave, Kentucky * Grand Caverns, Virginia * Grand Canyon Caverns, Arizona * Great Onyx Cave, Kentucky * Gypsum Cave, Nevada * Hall City Cave, California * Haynes Cave, West Virginia * Hellhole (cave), Hellhole, West Virginia * Hendrie River#Water Cave, Hendrie River Water Cave, Michigan * Hidden Cave, Nevada * Hobo Cave, Colorado * Hogup Cave, Utah * Horse Cave, Kentucky, Horse Cave, Kentucky * Horse Caves, Massachusetts * Horse Lava Tube System, Oregon * Howe Caverns, New York * Hubbard's Cave, Tennessee * Humboldt Cave, Nevada * Bixby State Preserve, Ice Cave, Iowa * Illinois Caverns State Natural Area, Illinois Caverns, Illinois * Indian Cave State Park, Nebraska * Indian Caverns, Pennsylvania * Indian Echo Caverns, Pennsylvania * Indian Jim's Cave, Virginia * Indiana Caverns, Indiana * Infernal Caverns, California * Inner Space Caverns, Texas * Jacobs Cavern, Missouri * Jacob's Well, Texas * Jewel Cave National Monument, Jewel Cave, South Dakota * Kartchner Caverns State Park, Kartchner Caverns, Arizona * Kazumura Cave, Hawaii * Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama * Kickapoo Cavern State Park, Texas * King Phillip's Cave (Massachusetts), King Phillip's Cave, Massachusetts * Kingston Saltpeter Cave, Georgia * Kuna Caves, Idaho * Lake Shasta Caverns, California * Laurel Caverns, Pennsylvania * Lava Beds National Monument, California * Lava River Cave (Arizona), Lava River Cave, Arizona * Lava River Cave, Oregon * Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico * Lehman Caves, Nevada * Leon Sinks Geological Area, Florida * Lewis and Clark Caverns, Montana * Linville Caverns, North Carolina * Lockport Cave, New York * Logan Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas * Lookout Mountain Caverns, Tennessee * Lost Cove Cave, Tennessee * Lost River Cave, Kentucky * Lost River Caverns, Pennsylvania * Lost River Reservation, Lost River Gorge Cave, New Hampshire * Lost World Caverns, West Virginia * Lovelock Cave, Nevada * Luray Caverns, Virginia * Makauwahi Cave, Hawaii * Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky * Mammoth Cave (Utah), Mammoth Cave, Utah * Manitou Cave, Alabama * Mantle's Cave, Colorado * Maquoketa Caves State Park, Iowa * Marengo Cave, Indiana * Mark Twain Cave, Missouri * Marmes Rockshelter, Washington * Martin Ridge Cave System, Kentucky * Marvel Cave, Missouri * Mary Campbell Cave, Ohio * Mega Cavern, Kentucky * Meramec Caverns, Missouri * Mercer Caverns, California * Minnetonka Cave, Idaho * Mitchell Caverns, California * Moaning Cavern, California * Moqui Cave, Utah * Mud Caves, California * Mummy Cave, Wyoming * Forestville Mystery Cave State Park, Mystery Cave, Minnesota * Mystic Caverns and Crystal Dome, Arkansas * Natural Bridge Caverns, Texas * Natural Tunnel State Park, Virginia * Neffs Cave (Utah), Neffs Cave, Utah * Nickajack Cave, Tennessee * Niter Ice Cave, Idaho * Nutty Putty Cave, Utah * Ogdens Cave Natural Area Preserve, Virginia * Ohio Caverns, Ohio * Old Spanish Treasure Cave, Arkansas * Olentangy Indian Caverns, Ohio * Oligo-Nunk Cave System, Kentucky * Onondaga Cave State Park, Missouri * Onyx Cave (Arizona), Onyx Cave, Arizona * Onyx Cave (Arkansas), Onyx Cave, Arkansas * Onyx Cave (Newburg, Missouri), Onyx Cave, Missouri * Oregon Caves National Monument, Oregon * Organ Cave, West Virginia * Ozark Caverns, Missouri * Paisley Caves, Oregon * Paradise Ice Cave, Washington * Wes Skiles Peacock Springs State Park, Peacock Springs Cave System, Florida * Domtar mine, Pellerito Cave, Michigan * Pendejo Cave, New Mexico * Penn's Cave and Hotel, Penns Cave, Pennsylvania * Peppersauce Cave, Arizona * Petty John's Cave, Georgia * Pictograph Cave (Mountain View, Arkansas), Pictograph Cave, Arkansas * Pictograph Cave (Billings, Montana), Pictograph Cave, Montana * Pluto's Cave, California * Polar Caves Park, New Hampshire * Port Kennedy Bone Cave, Pennsylvania * Raccoon Mountain Caverns, Tennessee * Redmond Caves, Oregon * Research Cave, Missouri * Ricks Spring, Utah * Rickwood Caverns State Park, Alabama * Riverbluff Cave, Missouri * Robbers Cave State Park, Oklahoma * Rock Dove Cave, Texas * Ruby Falls, Ruby Falls Cave, Tennessee * Rushmore Cave, South Dakota * Russell Cave National Monument, Russell Cave, Alabama * Samuels' Cave, Wisconsin * Sandia Cave, New Mexico * Sandy Glacier Caves, Oregon * Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama * Sea Lion Caves, Oregon * Seneca Caverns (Ohio), Seneca Caverns, Ohio * Seneca Caverns (West Virginia), Seneca Caverns, West Virginia * Shawnee Cave, Indiana * Shelta Cave, Alabama * Shelter Cave, New Mexico * Shenandoah Caverns, Virginia * Sinks of Gandy, West Virginia * Sitting Bull Crystal Caverns, South Dakota * Skeleton Cave (Arizona), Skeleton Cave, Arizona * Skeleton Cave (Oregon), Skeleton Cave, Oregon * Skull Cave (Mackinac Island), Skull Cave, Michigan * Skylight Cave, Oregon * Skyline Caverns, Virginia * Smoke Hole Caverns, West Virginia * Snail Shell Cave, Tennessee * Snowy River Cave, New Mexico * Spook Cave, Iowa * Squire Boone Caverns, Indiana * Spring Cave, Colorado * Spring Creek Cave, Texas * Spring Mill State Park, Indiana * Spring Valley Caverns, Minnesota * St. John Mine, Wisconsin * Clover Hollow Natural Area Preserve, Stay High Cave, Virginia * Talking Rocks Cavern, Missouri * Tears of the Turtle Cave, Montana * Thumping Dick Hollow, Tennessee * Timpanogos Cave National Monument, Utah * Toquima Cave, Nevada * Tory cave (Albany, New York), Tory Cave, New York * Tory's Cave (New Milford, Connecticut), Tory's Cave, Connecticut * Tory's Cave (Springfield, Vermont), Tory's Cave, Vermont * Tuckaleechee Caverns, Tennessee * Twin caves, Indiana * Tyson Spring Cave, Minnesota * Tytoona Cave, Pennsylvania * Unthanks Cave Natural Area Preserve, Virginia * Ursa Minor (cave), Ursa Minor, California * Ventana Cave, Arizona * Wabasha Street Caves, Minnesota * Wakulla Springs, Wakulla Cave, Florida * Warren's Cave, Florida * Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida * Wilson Butte Cave, Idaho * Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota * Wonder Cave (San Marcos, Texas), Wonder Cave, Texas * Wonderland Cave, Arkansas * Wyandotte Caves, Indiana * Zane Shawnee Caverns, Ohio

Caribbean

Aruba

* Aruba Natural Bridge * Quadiriki Caves

Barbados

* Animal Flower Cave * Harrison's Cave

Curaçao

* Hato Caves

Cuba

* Cuevas de Bellamar * Cueva de Saturno * La Gran Caverna de Santo Tomás

Dominican Republic

* Cuevas Fun Fun * Pomier Caves * Los Tres Ojos * Cuevas de las Maravillas

Haiti

* Bellony Cave * Kounoubwa Cave * Marie-Jeanne Cave

Jamaica

* Bad Hole Cave * Belmont Cave * Carambie Cave * Coffee River Cave * Dunn's Hole * Gourie Cave * Green Grotto Caves * Hutchinson's Hole * Jackson's Bay Cave * Long Mile Cave * Morgans Pond Hole * Mouth Maze Cave * Oxford Cave, Jamaica, Oxford Cave * Smokey Hole Cave * Swansea Cave * Thatchfield Great Cave * Windsor Great Cave * Xtabi

Puerto Rico

* Cueva de Los Indios * Cueva del Indio * Cuevas Las Cabachuelas * Cueva Lucero * Cueva Ventana * Parque Nacional de las Cavernas del Río Camuy * Pozo de Jacinto

Saint Lucia

* Bat Cave, Saint Lucia, Bat Cave

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

* Byahaut Bat Cave

Trinidad and Tobago

* Aripo Cave * Crusoe Cave * Cumaca Cave * Dunston Cave * La Vache * Lopinot Cave * Tamana caves

Turks and Caicos Islands

* Conch Bar Caves

South America

Argentina

* Cave 3, Los Toldos (Santa Cruz)#Cave 3, Los Toldos (Santa Cruz) * Cueva de la Bruja * Cueva de Gualicho * Cueva de las Manos * Cueva del Tigré * Witches' Cave

Bolivia

* Cavernas de Repechón * Ch'usiq Uta * Cueva del Diablo * Qala Qala

Brazil

* Abismo Guy Collet * Abismo Ouro Grosso * Areado Grande * Buraco das Araras (Goiás), Buraco das Araras, Goiás * Buraco das Araras (Mato Grosso do Sul), Buraco das Araras, Mato Grosso do Sul * Caverna Aroe Jari * Caverna da Pedra Pintada * Caverna da Tapagem * Caverna de Santana * Caverna dos Ecos * Cavernas do Peruaçu National Park * Conjunto Santa Rita * Conjunto São Mateus * Gruta Canabrava * Gruta Casa de Pedra * Gruta da Cabana * Gruta da Morena * Gruta da Torrinha * Grutas das Areias * Gruta de Maquiné * Gruta de Ubajara * Gruta do Centenário * Gruta do Janelão * Gruta do Lago Azul Natural Monument * Gruta do Padre * Gruta Olhos d'Água * Gruta Rei do Mato * Lapa da Mangabeira * Lapa do Convento * Lapa do Salitre * Lapa dos Brejões * Lapa Terra Ronca * Parque da Cascata * Poço Encantado * Serra do Ramalho * Toca da Barriguda * Toca da Boa Vista

Chile

Caves are ordered from north to south. * Cueva del Pirata * Cueva de los Pincheira * Catedral de Mármol * Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument, Cueva del Milodón * Cueva Fell

Colombia

* Cueva de los Guácharos, Guacharos Cave

Ecuador

* Cueva de los Tayos

Peru

* Chivateros * Guitarrero Cave * Hatun Uchku * Killa Mach'ay * Pikimachay * Pumawasi, Anta, Pumawasi * Qaqa Mach'ay * Shihual (Peru), Shihual * Sima Pumacocha * Tampu Mach'ay, Huancavelica, Tampu Mach'ay * Toquepala Caves

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

* Cave Cove

Suriname

* Werehpai

Uruguay

* Palace Cave

Venezuela

* Cueva Alfredo Jahn Natural Monument * Cueva de la Quebrada del Toro * Cueva del Fantasma * Cueva del Guácharo National Park, Cueva del Guácharo * Cueva del Saman * Cueva La Segunda Cascada * Cueva Los Encantos * Cueva Los Laureles * Cueva-Sumidero La Retirada * Haitón del Guarataro * Sima Aonda * Sima Aonda 2 * Sima Aonda 3 * Sima Auyantepui Noroeste * Sima Auyantepui Norte * Sima Humboldt * Sima Martel

Mars

seven putative cave entrances have been identified in satellite imagery of the planet Mars, all so far located on the flanks of Arsia Mons. A more recent photograph of one of the features shows sunlight illuminating a side wall, suggesting that it may simply be a vertical pit rather than an entrance to a larger underground space.

References

External links

Member Caves Directory
from the
National Caves Association

World Cave Wiki Database made by cavers

Famous Caves in the World
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