<< Image Pages >> Minetada Caves - Cave or Rock Shelter in Spain in Castilla La Mancha y Madrid
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Minetada CavesCountry: Spain
NOTE: This site is 45.209 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Castilla La Mancha y Madrid Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Monover
Latitude: 38.590107N Longitude: 1.796951W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Cave or Rock Shelter in Castilla La Mancha y Madrid
One of Spain's Unesco World Heritage Site caves, in the Parque Arqueologico el Tolmo de Minateda.
Discovered by Juan Jimenez Llamas in 1914, there are 5 caves with archaeology from 8 to 3 thousand years ago.
Explored and the wealth of images documented by H. Breuil.
The caves are temporarily closed at the time of writing, in November 2012.
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