- Toca da Boa Vista
Toca da Boa Vista is the longest known
cave in theSouthern hemisphere . It is located within the municipality of Campo Formoso inBahia State,Brazil and had 84 km of mapped passages in 1999. It is now reported ["Long caves of the world", World Cave Database compiled by Eric Madelaine accessed at [http://www-sop.inria.fr/agos/sis/DB/world.bylength.html] July 27, 2006] to have 102 km of passages, which makes it the 15th longest cave in the world. Continued exploration faces typical temperatures of 30 C.Toca da Boa Vista is within 2 km of another significant cave
Toca da Barriguda , 23 km long, which is Brazil's second longest.Notes
External links
* Auler, A.S. & Smart, P.L. 1999. "Toca da Boa Vista, Bahia state - the longest known cave in the Southern Hemisphere" in: Schobbenhaus, C.; Campos, D.A.; Queiroz, E.T.; Winge, M.; Berbert-Born, M. (Edit.) "Sítios Geológicos e Paleontológicos do Brasil" accessed at [http://www.unb.br/ig/sigep/sitio019/sitio019.htm] July 27, 2006 (Abstract in English)
* [http://www.bambui.org.br/projetos.htm Grupo Bambuí de pesquisas espeleológicas] Project page (in Portuguese)
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