Cueva del Valle or Cave del Valle (Valley's cave in Spanish) is a cave located in the municipality of Rasines, Cantabria

Cantabria

Cantabria is a Spanish historical region and autonomous community with Santander as its capital city. It is bordered on the east by the Basque Autonomous Community , on the south by Castile and León , on the west by the Principality of Asturias, and on the north by the Cantabrian Sea.Cantabria...

 (Spain). It is also known by locals as "The Viejarrona." It has a large entry, which gives great majesty. It is born Silent River, a tributary of Ruahermosa, both of Assos. It is very important prehistoric as well as speleologic.

Prehistoric importance

Although no paintings have been found inside, in 1905 the Presbyter Lorenzo Sierra discovered a very important reservoir of objects and pieces from different eras: Azilian

Azilian

The Azilian is a name given by archaeologists to an industry of the Epipaleolithic in northern Spain and southern France.It probably dates to the period of the Allerød Oscillation around 10,000 years ago and followed the Magdalenian culture...

 (harpoons, scrapers ...); Upper Magdalenian

Magdalenian

The Magdalenian , refers to one of the later cultures of the Upper Paleolithic in western Europe, dating from around 17,000 BP to 9,000 BP...

points (spear of one or two rows of teeth and other various tools of bone. silex industry has mostly central chisels and various types of scrapers). This site also found a stick perforated great archaeological value has now disappeared, which is a copy in plaster at the National Archaeological Museum. Also there was another pole pierced less important than the former because they have no decoration is preserved in the Regional Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria.

Speleological importance

The cave of the valley is recognized as one of the longest caves explored of the world with more than 40 miles explored is well known by practitioners of caving.