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List of caves of Poland

This article is about the caves of Poland.

Geographic distribution

Tatra Mountains

, there are 843 caves known in the Polish Tatra Mountains with the total length exceeding 134 km. They are within Tatra National Park. All the prominent ones are limestone karst caves of the Western Tatras, but there are also some tectonic caves. The largest and deepest caves of the Tatras (and of Poland) are located in the Czerwone Wierchy and Kominiarski Wierch massifs. Another highly promising region, the massif of Giewont, is largely unexplored due to its strict nature conservation status.

Pieniny

  • Jaskinia nad Polaną SosnówkÄÂ
  • Jaskinia Pienińska
  • Jaskinia w Ociemnem
  • Jaskinia Wyżna
  • Jaskinia w Obłazowej

Jura

In the area of Kraków-Częstochowa Upland there are over 1800 known limestone caves, most of them shorter than 100m and rather shallow.

Beskids and Subcarpathia

Sudetes

Świętokrzyskie

Nida Basin

Gypsum karst caves of the Nida syncline.

Gdańsk Pomerania

Tourist caves

There are currently 17 tourist caves in Poland.

Show caves

Show caves, with guided tours and requiring an entrance fee:

Other

Other caves made accessible to the general public as part of a tourist trail:

Records

Biology

Notable troglobionts, troglophiles, and trogloxenes of Polish caves include:

Crustaceans

Arachnids

Insects

Bats

17 out of 21 species of Polish bats can be found in caves – most of them only in winter, during their hibernation.

Conservation

Exploration

See also

References

External links