As of 2018[update], there are 843 caves known in the Polish Tatra Mountains with the total length exceeding 134 km.[1] They are within Tatra National Park. All the prominent ones are limestone karst caves of the Western Tatras, but there are also some tectonic caves. The largest and deepest caves of the Tatras (and of Poland) are located in the Czerwone Wierchy and Kominiarski Wierch massifs. Another highly promising region, the massif of Giewont, is largely unexplored due to its strict nature conservation status.[2]
In the area of Kraków-Częstochowa Upland there are over 1800 known limestone caves, most of them shorter than 100m and rather shallow.
Gypsum karst caves of the Nida syncline.
There are currently 17 tourist caves in Poland.[3]
Show caves, with guided tours and requiring an entrance fee:
Other caves made accessible to the general public as part of a tourist trail:
Notable troglobionts, troglophiles, and trogloxenes of Polish caves include:[12][13]
17 out of 21 species of Polish bats can be found in caves – most of them only in winter, during their hibernation.[14]
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The shaft gets a name Studnia Wazeliniarzy, coming from guys who, for the protection of body parts exposed to the destructive influence of the microclimate of caverns, routinely used vaseline.
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