Caving in Spain
Limestone mountains riddled with some of the deepest shafts in the world, gypsum karst in the desert, lava tubes in the Canary Islands. A guide to going underground in Spain: where to visit, where cavers explore, who to go with and how to start.
Show caves
74 show caves
Caves anyone can visit, with guides and lights in place: the way in for everyone.
Caving areas
28 caving areas
The massifs where Spain's great systems are explored, their records, and where the surveys are published.
Clubs & federations
114 clubs and bodies
The federation, the regional bodies, cave rescue and the clubs that explore, official and independent.
Getting started
How to begin with a club and a course, the safety basics, the rules, and why light matters most.
Show caves are marked exactly: they are public places. For every other cave we only show the area, never the entrance: caves are fragile, some protect bats or archaeology, and many are dangerous without a club. Surveys belong to the cavers who drew them, so we link to them and credit them.
Light is the one thing you cannot run out of
Underground there is no daylight to fall back on, so cavers never trust a single light: spares go in the pack, and the main one is on the helmet, hands free. That is the lamp Carbi was designed to be: wide and even to read the cave, long reach for shafts and big chambers, and a battery you can check before you go in.
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