Grottes de Ornolac

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Classification:	Karst Cave
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Bibliography:	Karl Rinderknecht (1955): Die geheimnisvolle Höhle, Abenteuer im unbekannten Südfrankreich. Zürich: Büchergilde Gutenberg 1955.
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History

Description

The Grottes de Ornolac is not the name of a single cave, it actually translates "the caves around Ornolac". The village Ornolac in the Ariège valley in the Pyrenees has a view on a limestone cliff of the Clôt de la Carbonnière which is virtually riddled with caves. The famous cave is the show cave Grotte de Lombrives on the southwestern slope of the valley, but the caves we are talking about here are on the northeastern side which means they face the southwest and get a lot of sun, which makes them good stops for prehistoric hunters.