Peştera Comarnic
| Peştera Comarnic
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 The Comarnic Cave |
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| Location: | Carașova , Caraș-Severin County , Banat , Romania | |
| Height : | 440 m | |
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Geographic location: |
45 ° 10 ′ 1.2 ″ N , 21 ° 58 ′ 30 ″ E | |
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| Geology: | limestone | |
| Type: | Stalactite cave | |
| Discovery: | 1955 | |
| Overall length: | 6300 m | |
| Level difference: | 100 m | |
| Length of the show cave area: |
1780 m | |
| Website: | http://comarnic.exploratorii.ro | |
Peştera Comarnic ( German Comarnic Cave , also Komarnik Cave ) is a stalactite cave in the Caraş-Severin district , Banat , Romania . The Comarnic Cave was discovered in 1856, placed under nature protection by the Romanian Academy in 1946 and has been part of the Semenic-Cheile Carașului National Park since 1983 ( Romanian Parcul Național Semenic-Cheile Carașului ).
description
The Comarnic Cave is located in the Anina Mountains as part of the Banat Mountains , on the area of the municipality of Carașova . It has a total length of 6300 meters, of which 1780 meters are accessible to tourists. As a former underground river bed, it is covered with a sinter layer.
The Comarnic cave has two entrances, the Comarnic entrance down the valley at a height of 440 meters and the Ponicova entrance up the valley at a height of 470 meters.
It has three "floors":
- the dry, so-called fossil floor
- the semi-active zone, in which there is water when snowmelt or heavy rainfall
- the active part, which is constantly under water
The upper floor is available for tourists to visit, the lower floor is crossed by an underground watercourse and can only be entered with special clothing. The middle floor is partly dry, partly flooded. The length of the upper gallery is 1,600 meters and has a width of 300 to 400 meters. It consists of several halls with a wide variety of stalagmite and stalactite formations. The temperature in the cave is around 9 degrees Celsius.
Formations
The most diverse bizarre formations can be recognized such as stairs, columns, domes, organs, candles, stone flowers. The rooms with the strangest formations have meaningful names such as: Small Organ, Large Organ, Museum, Great Wall of China, Opera House and Crystal Hall. Further individual formations are: macaroni, mushrooms, coconut, twins, crocodile and camel.
fauna
The fauna of the cave consists of some endemic shellfish and insects . In so-called gours (basins) there is a kind of niphargus (tiny crustaceans) and planarians (flatworms). The bats (Rhinolophus) live in some colonies in points 20 and 59.
See also
Web links
- karpatenwanderer.de , Georg Hromadka: Through the gorges of the Banat
- banaterra.eu , natural beauties in the Banater Uplands
Individual evidence
- ↑ turismland.ro , Pestera Comarnic - Muntii Aninei
- ↑ karpatenwilli.com , Through the gorges of the Anina Mountains
- ↑ comarnic.exploratorii.ro ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Comarnic cave. fauna
