Chauvet Cave
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Inocybe, Public domain.
- Access is restricted and requires permission.
- Type: Cave
- Description: cave in France
- Also known as: “Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Grotte de la Vacheresse and Grotte des Huguenots.
Grotte des Huguenots
Cave
Photo: JYB Devot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Grotte des Huguenots is a cave, which is situated 560 metres west of Chauvet Cave.
Grotte du Déroc
Cave
Photo: JYB Devot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Grotte du Déroc is a cave, which is situated 1 km north of Chauvet Cave.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pont d’Arc and Salavas.
Pont d’Arc
Locality
Photo: Superjuju10, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Pont d'Arc is a large natural bridge, located in the Ardèche département in the south of France, 5 km from the town of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc. The arch, formed when the river Ardèche broke through a narrow escarpment between its meander, is 59 metres wide and 34 m high at the top of the opening.
Salavas
Village
Photo: René Dinkel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Salavas is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France. Salavas is situated 3 km west of Chauvet Cave.
Vagnas
Village
Photo: Raymond SÉNÈQUE, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vagnas is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France. Vagnas is situated 6 km southwest of Chauvet Cave.
Chauvet Cave
Latitude
44.38811° or 44° 23′ 17″ northLongitude
4.41569° or 4° 24′ 57″ eastElevation
163 metres (535 feet)Open location code
8FP69CQ8+67OpenStreetMap ID
node 2199517628OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entranceGeoNames ID
9972553Wikidata ID
Q374096
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chauvet Cave” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كهف شوفيه”
- Armenian: “Շովե քարանձավ”
- Azerbaijani: “Şove mağarası”
- Balinese: “Goa Chauvet”
- Basque: “Chauvet leizea”
- Belarusian: “Пячора Шавэ”
- Breton: “kev Chauvet”
- Breton: “Kev Chauvet”
- Bulgarian: “Шове”
- Catalan: “cova chauvet”
- Catalan: “Cova de Chauvet”
- Cebuano: “Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave”
- Chinese: “肖維岩洞”
- Chinese: “肖维岩洞”
- Chuvash: “Шове”
- Croatian: “Chauvet-Pont d’Arc”
- Czech: “Chauvetova jeskyně”
- Danish: “Chauvetgrotten”
- Dutch: “Chauvet”
- Dutch: “Grotte Chauvet Pont d’Arc”
- Dutch: “Grotte Chauvet”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كهف شوفيه”
- Esperanto: “Groto Chauvet”
- Finnish: “Chauvet’n luola”
- French: “grotte Chauvet Pont d’Arc”
- French: “grotte Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc”
- French: “grotte Chauvet”
- French: “Grotte Chauvet”
- Galician: “Cova de Chauvet”
- Georgian: “შოვეს გამოქავაბული”
- Georgian: “შოვეს გამოქვაბული”
- German: “Chauvet-Höhle”
- German: “Chauvethöhle”
- Greek: “σπήλαιο Σοβέ”
- Greek: “Σπήλαιο Σοβέ”
- Greek: “Σπήλαιο Σωβέ”
- Hebrew: “מערת שובה”
- Hungarian: “Chauvet-barlang”
- Indonesian: “Gua Chauvet”
- Italian: “grotta Chauvet”
- Italian: “Grotta Chauvet”
- Japanese: “ショーヴェ洞窟”
- Javanese: “Guwa Chauvet”
- Korean: “쇼베 동굴”
- Latvian: “Šovē ala”
- Lithuanian: “Šovė urvas”
- Luxembourgish: “Chauvet-Hiel”
- Macedonian: “Шове”
- Malay: “Gua Chauvet”
- Maltese: “Grotta ta‘ Chauvet”
- Maltese: “Grotta ta’ Chauvet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chauvetgrotten”
- Norwegian: “Chauvetgrotten”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bauma Chauvet”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bauma de Chauvet”
- Persian: “غار شووه”
- Polish: “Jaskinia Chauveta”
- Portuguese: “Caverna de Chauvet”
- Russian: “пещера Шове”
- Russian: “Пещера Шове”
- Serbian: “Пећина Шове”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Crteži u pećini Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc”
- Sicilian: “Grutta Chauvet”
- Slovak: “Chauvetova jaskyňa”
- Slovenian: “Chauvetova jama”
- Spanish: “Cueva de Chauvet”
- Swedish: “Chauvetgrottan”
- Tamil: “சூவே குகை”
- Turkish: “Chauvet Mağarası”
- Ukrainian: “Печера Шове”
- Ukrainian: “Шове”
- Vietnamese: “Hang Chauvet”
- Yue Chinese: “肖維岩洞”
- “Chauvet Cave”
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