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.
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- Cave
- …lies at an elevation of 163 metres (535 feet)
- …is also known as “Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc”
- Description: cave in France
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Grotte de la Vacheresse and Grotte des Huguenots.
Grotte des Huguenots
Cave
Grotte de Cayre Creyt
Cave
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pont d’Arc and Salavas.
Salavas
Village
Vagnas
Village
Chauvet Cave
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- Location
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Latitude
44.38811° or 44° 23′ 17″ north
Longitude
4.41569° or 4° 24′ 57″ east
Open location code
8FP69CQ8+67
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entrance
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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”
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