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İnkaya Cave

The 29th deepest cave in the world

The 105th longest cave in the world

30m · Depth
0.2km · Length

İnkaya Cave (İnkaya Mağarası) is a cave located on the eastern slope of Mount Kocadağ at Yelki village in Güzelbahçe, İzmir Province, western Turkey. The cave is 222 m (728 ft). The dry cave is developed generally horizontal and partly vertical dry cave. Potsherds found in the cave point the cave was used as a settlement in ancient times. The cave's geological-geomorphological constitution resulted from some intersectional fractures inside a Cretaceous limestone formation. A wide hall is formed after a steep descent. It is about 20 m (66 ft) wide and in average 5 m (16 ft) high. The hall continues in an inclined gallery towards south. At the end of gallery, a 7 m (23 ft)-deep hole leads to the cave's lowest level and the end.

Cave data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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