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Ochtinská Aragonite Cave

The 94th longest cave in the world

0.3km · Length

Ochtinská Aragonite Cave (Slovak: Ochtinská aragonitová jaskyňa, Martonházi-aragonitbarlang) is a unique aragonite cave situated in southern Slovakia, near Rožňava. Although only 300 m long, it is famous for its rare aragonite formations. Along with other caves of the Slovak Karst, it is included in the UNESCO World Heritage list as a component of Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst site, because of its diversity of aragonite formations and testimony to the cave-forming geologic processes.

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

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