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The peculiar situation in which it is located Cantabria make it an ideal place to observe the settlements of primitive man thousands of years ago. They accounted for its magnificent art in the caves showing figures of various animals of the time (bison, horses, goats, deer, cattle etc.) Hands and many prints. Have also been able to find remains of animals such as bears, the remains of arrows and other material that can be found mostly in the Regional Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria.

Caves with rock art

Great room polychrome Altamira, published by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola in 1880.

Cave of Altamira

The Altamira Cave is located near Santillana del Mar, this cave, called the "Sistine Chapel of Quaternary" relatively small (270 m) stands the impressive representations of animals such as bison (played 16 times), deer (the great deer is the largest figure with 2.25 meters) or horses. The cave was included in the World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1985.

Cave of Cullalvera

Cullalvera Cave is located in the municipality of Ramales de la Victoria, capital of the comarca of Valley of the Asón River. This cave near the village contains an entry that arises from a Cantabrian oak, is part of a karstic complex about 12 kilometers to find a multitude of geological forms arising from the action of water and thousands of years after its creation. These forms along with the remains of prehistoric and recent public opening of the cave are one of the most visited of the region. Have been found remains of a small reservoir and rock art, both from the Paleolithic.

Cave of the Fuente del Salín

Fuente del Salín Cave is located in the municipality of Val de San Vicente, contains an archaeological site discovered in 1985 and has a very winding path, accessible only in times of drought because its input has the mouth of a river underground. The remains found are a reservoir belonging mainly to the Upper Paleolithic with a date of 22340 years old according to dating Carbon-14 and also a home, just as you can see rock art and in the same room there are several negative handprints others in addition to being positive in other rooms.

Cave of Chufín

Chufín Cave is located in the town of Riclones. It is located in the place of confluence of the rivers and Nansa Lamasón in an environment with steep slopes where there are several caves with rock art. In Chufín found different levels of occupation, the oldest being around 20000 years old. The cave, small size has some profound simplicity and subtle prints of paintings from red deer, goats and cattle that are represented very schematically. It also found a large number of symbols. One group, called type "sticks", accompanies the paintings inside animals. There is also a large number of drawings puntillaje, among which around each hole in the rock which has been interpreted as a representation of a vulva. The cave was included in the World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 2008.

Cave del Porquerizo

Del Porquerizo Cave is a cavity that is in the town of Celis, in the municipality of Rionansa. It is reached by a path that is reached from the village of this town, and after walking down a very steep slope opens this cave. Debris has both Solutrean occupation as Paleolithic cave paintings, times of between 20,000 and 17,000 years old. There are some rock paintings, as a group of pinpoint red or some clauses not very detailed. By its context and its morphology has been classified as a style of Leroi-Gourhan III.

Cave of Micolón

Micolón Cave is an archaeological site that is on the verge Palombera Reservoir. It is a cavity of 500 meters with a particularly narrow labyrinthine, which has found some flint carving (as some nodules with signs of having been exploited and a chisel). The remains belong to the Solutrean occupation, ie, would be between 20000 and 17000 years old. As rock art, the cave has 22 clauses and recorded some red paint, basically framed in a room near the entrance. There are deer, horses and some signs tectiform, all style III of André Leroi-Gourhan. [Edit] Cueva de los Marranos Main article: Cueva de los Marranos

La Cueva de los Marranos is on sale Fresnedo Lamasón within the municipality to access it you have to follow a path that leads directly to be upwelling of two mouths. Geologically, it is something like a drain in times of flooding, but has a spacious lobby with rock art. Have been found there remains of Paleolithic lithic represented mainly by carved in quartzite. On the other side is a bronze buckle from the late Middle Ages, indicating the possibility that the cave could have served as a shelter for travelers. In 2000, BIC is declared by the Ministry of Law [Edit] Cave of El Portillo

La Cueva del Arenal El Portillo is located in the village of Velo, in the municipality of Piélagos. It contains well-preserved rock art, besides being found in her mortuary pottery fragments and debris. [Edit] Cave of the Meaza Main article: Cave of the Meaza

The Cave of the Meaza is located in the town of Comillas, to reach it you have to take the road Cabezón de la Sal - Comillas. At this village, take the turnoff to the district of La Molina and before him there is a path leading to the cavity. Found in the cave remains of Solutrean, Azilian and even some so-called evidence Asturiense, recent prehistoric burials and the remains of the Middle Ages. The fact that occupancy has many times explained by the shape of the cave, with a wide entrance and a comfortable lobby to your room. At the bottom of the cavity found some remains of Paleolithic rock art framed in the style of Leroi-Gourhan III, although unfortunately not been kept too well. [Edit] Cueva de las Aguas

La Cueva de Las Aguas is located in the town of Novales, in the municipality of Lloredo Alfoz. This cave contains rock art as are two bison carved and painted in red, a doe, a horse, clavate, a sign on the grill and several more configurations. These remains are located chronologically in the early or middle Magdalenian period. [Edit] Cave of the Linar

The Cave of The Linar is located in La Busta, a town in the municipality of Alfoz of Lloredo. It is a drain of more than 7 kilometers with three mouths and where they join the stream of Busta. It found Paleolithic materials have also been detected and Magdalenian levels. In one of the galleries is a group of animalistic motifs recorded as goats, bison and ibex. It has also located another group of paintings of lines and vulvas and remains of the Bronze Age. [Edit] Cave Cualventi

Cualventi Cave is located in the neighborhood of Peralada, in the municipality Oreña Alfoz of Lloredo. In this cave we can find several red spots using the techniques of "buffered" and "spot" to show a huge bison, goats, deer and horses very similar to the Cave of El Pendo, the cave and other caves Covalanas Cantabria. Your approximate dates of Magdalenian age. [Edit] Cueva de La Clotilde Main article: Cueva de La Clotilde

La Cueva de La Clotilde is located in the town of Santa Isabel de Quijas in the Cantabrian town Reocín. Their remains suggest that should be occupied during the Magdalenian period and also its cave paintings dating from before the Aurignacian period, which include representations of animals and other symbols of unknown nature. [Edit] Cave Station Main article: Cave Station

The Cave of The Station is located in the same locality as the cave of La Clotilde, in Santa Isabel de Quijas. This cave is notable for the presence of paintings in a large room with representations of horses and other signs are not identifiable. Data about the Aurignacian or Gravettian times. [Edit] Cave Sovilla

Sovilla Cave located in the neighborhood of the same name in San Felices de Buelna and near the cave of Hornos de la Peña is characterized mainly by the wall paintings that show deer, horses, bison and reindeer. The picturesque set belongs to the Magdalenian period. [Edit] Cueva de Hornos de la Peña Main article: Cueva de Hornos de la Peña

La Cueva de Hornos de la Peña was discovered in 1903 and is situated on a hill near the village of Tarriba, San Felices de Buelna. The most notable paintings are a headless bison, horse and others at various levels in the first room and the second set of 35 figures paintings are animals such as horses, bison, aurochs, goats ... The dating of the painting tells us that creation is the initial or middle Magdalenian. [Edit] Other caves with rock art

   * Cave Round
   * Cueva de las Brujas
   * Cueva de La Pila
   * Cave Cudón
   * Cave Santián
   * Cave of the Calero II
   * Cuevas del Monte Castillo
         or Cueva de El Castillo
         or Cueva de Las Chimeneas
         or Cueva de Las Monedas
         or Cave of the Pasiega
   * Cave Juyo
   * Cave of El Pendo
   * Cueva de La Llosa
   * Cueva de los Moros
   * Cueva de La Garma
   * Cueva de El Salitre
   * Cueva del Morro Horidillo
   * It shall make Cave
   * Arch Cave
   * Cueva de la Venta de la Perra
   * Cave-Covanegra Sotarriza
   * The Cave of Haza
   * Cave Covalanas
   * Cueva de San Juan de Socueva
   * Cave Sotarraña
   * Cave Ambushed
   * Cave Cofresnedo
   * Cave Cobrante
   * Cave of the Otero
   * Peña Cave Dog
   * San Carlos Cave
   * Cave of El Cuco
   * Cave Urdiales
   * Cueva Juan Gómez
   * Cave of the Lastrilla
   * Cueva Grande

[Edit] Other caves Speleothems in the cave of El Soplao. [Edit] Cave Soplao Main article: Cave Soplao

The Soplao is a cave located in the municipalities of Rionansa, Valdáliga and Blacksmith in Cantabria (Spain). It is considered a single cavity worldwide for the quality and quantity of geological formations (speleothems) that houses in its 17 miles in length, although only 6 are open to the public. In it are rare formations as helíctitas (estatalactitas eccentric defying gravity) and "draperies" (sheets or translucent banners hanging from the ceiling). Its formation dates back to the Mesozoic, in particular the Cretaceous period 240 million years ago. [Edit] Cave Valley Cane Valley Cave. Main article: Cave Valley

La Cueva del Valle is located in the municipality of Rasines Cantabria (Spain). It is also known by locals as "The Viejarrona." It has a large entry, which gives great majesty. It is born Silent River, a tributary of Ruahermosa, both of Assos. It is very important prehistoric as well as caving and his age is dated at about the Azilian and Upper Magdalenian. [Edit] Cueva Morin Main article: Cueva Morin

Morin's Cave or Cave of the King is in Villaescusa (Cantabria). Reclining been found dating from the Middle Paleolithic archaeological like famous body cast so-called man of Morin. Thanks to the testimony in this cave has been made to study the habits of earlier hominids. [Edit] Russian Cave

Russian cave was discovered in Igollo, Camargo and provided materials from the Paleolithic and Bronze Age which can be found as usual at the Museum of Prehistory of Santander.

There were several cerrámicas Beaker and touch the tip of the plane. Juyo cave keeps a long sequence of Magdalenian though, like the rest, no rock art. [Edit] Cave of the Chora

The Cave of The Chora is located in San Pantaleon de Aras and it appeared as materials of flint blades and scrapers back and Magdalenian bone harpoons. [Edit] Discoveries of the caves