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List of caves
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. Caves which are in overseas territories on a different continent than the home country are sorted by the territory' ...
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France
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Aven Armand
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Bédeilhac Cave
The Bédeilhac Cave () is a large decorated cave located in the commune of Bédeilhac-et-Aynat in Ariège, France. It is part of the network of decorated caves in the Pyrenees- Cantabrian Mountains chain.
Speleology
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Bétharram caves
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Bournillon cave, the highest cave opening in Europe.
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Bruniquel Cave
Bruniquel Cave is an archeological site near Bruniquel, in an area which has many paleolithic sites, east of Montauban in southwestern France. Annular (ring) and accumulation (pile) structures made of broken stalagmites have been found 336 metre ...
, an archaeological site dated at 176,000 years with stalagmite rings constructed by Neanderthal men
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Carcassonne (city)
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Chauvet Cave
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave ( ) 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 Paleolithic life.Clottes (2003b), p. ...
, and its replica (for protection)
Pont-d'Arc cave
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Choranche cave
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Les Combarelles cave
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Cosquer Cave, only sub-marine access), (its replica is in construction).
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Grotte des Demoiselles, near
Nîmes
Nîmes ( , ; ; Latin: ''Nemausus'') is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Gard Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region of Southern France. Located between the Med ...
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Grotte des Fées cave
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Font-de-Gaume cave, near
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil (; ) is a former commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It was created in 1973 by the merger of two former communes: Les Eyzies-de-Tayac and Sireuil. On 1 January 2019, it wa ...
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Gargas caves
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Gournier Cave
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Gouy Cave
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Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil
Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil (; ) is a former commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It was created in 1973 by the merger of two former communes: Les Eyzies-de-Tayac and Sireuil. On 1 January 2019, it wa ...
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Lascaux Cave
Lascaux ( , ; , "Lascaux Cave") is a network of caves near the village of Montignac, Dordogne, Montignac, in the Departments of France, department of Dordogne in southwestern France. Over 600 Parietal art, parietal cave painting, wall paintin ...
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Nice (city)
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Lombrives caves, this cave network is one of the most extensive in
Europe
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and has seven distinct levels
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La Mansonnière cave, one of the longest chalk caves
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Pech Merle cave
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Niaux cave
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Aven d'Orgnac
The aven d'Orgnac is a cave located to the south of the limestone plateau of the Gorges de l'Ardèche, in the commune of Orgnac-l'Aven in the department of Ardèche, in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and Issirac in the Gard department, in t ...
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Padirac Cave
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Savonnières caves
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St-Médard-de-Presque cave
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Rouffignac Cave
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Alès (city)
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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 of ...
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Gouffre de la Pierre Saint-Martin
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Villars Cave
Vertical Caves
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Gouffre Berger
The Gouffre Berger is a cave in the French alps within the commune of Engins high on the Vercors Plateau. It was discovered on 24 May 1953 by Joseph Berger, Georges Bouvet, Ruiz de Arcaute and Marc Jouffrey. From 1953 to 1963, it was regarded as ...
, the first cave explored to more than 1,000m depth
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Réseau du Clot d'Aspres the second 1,000m in Vercors
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Aven des Corneilles
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Gouffre Mirolda
Gouffre Mirolda is a karstic cave located in the :fr:Haut-Giffre, Haut-Giffre. mountain range, in the commune of Samoëns, Haute-Savoie, France. It is connected to the Lucien Bouclier cave system, and has a depth of . It is the List of deepest cav ...
, in competition as the world's deepest cave
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Gouffre de la Pierre Saint-Martin
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Jean Bernard cave system, in competition as world's deepest cave
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Réseau Félix Trombe
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List of caves
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. Caves which are in overseas territories on a different continent than the home country are sorted by the territory' ...
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Speleology
Speleology () is the scientific study of caves and other karst features, as well as their chemical composition, composition, structure, physical property, physical properties, history, ecology, and the processes by which they form (speleogenes ...
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...
Caves
Caves or caverns are natural voids under the Earth's surface. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. Exogene caves are smaller openings that extend a relatively short distance underground (such as rock ...