Potok Cave
Potok Cave is a cave in northern Slovenia, declared a high-elevation archaeological and paleontological site, occupied approximately 35,000 years BP by anatomically modern humans of the Aurignacian culture during the Upper Paleolithic.Photo: DancingPhilosopher, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kirche St Margaretha bei Eisenkappel and Holy Spirit Church, Podolševa.
Kirche St Margaretha bei Eisenkappel
Church
Photo: Neithan90, Public domain.
Kirche St Margaretha bei Eisenkappel is a church, which is situated 1½ km northwest of Potok Cave.
Holy Spirit Church, Podolševa
Church
Photo: Janezdrilc, CC0.
Holy Spirit Church, Podolševa is situated 1½ km southwest of Potok Cave.
Our Lady of the Snow Parish Church
Church
Photo: Eleassar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Our Lady of the Snow Parish Church is situated 3½ km southeast of Potok Cave.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Podolševa and Koprivna.
Podolševa
Village
Photo: JakobZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Podolševa is a dispersed settlement in the Municipality of Solčava in northern Slovenia. The area belongs to the traditional region of Styria and is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.
Koprivna
Hamlet
Koprivna is a dispersed settlement in the Upper Meža Valley in the hills west of Črna na Koroškem in the Carinthia region of northern Slovenia on the border with Austria. Koprivna is situated 6 km east of Potok Cave.
Logarska Dolina
Hamlet
Photo: Sl-Ziga, Public domain.
Logarska Dolina is a settlement in the Logar Valley in the Municipality of Solčava in northern Slovenia. The area belongs to the traditional region of Styria and is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region. Logarska Dolina is situated 6 km southwest of Potok Cave.
Potok Cave
- Type: Cave
- Description: cave in Slovenia
- Categories: archaeological site and landform
- Location: Carinthia, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.44935° or 46° 26′ 58″ northLongitude
14.669° or 14° 40′ 8″ eastElevation
1,675 metres (5,495 feet)Open location code
8FRPCMX9+PHOpenStreetMap ID
node 2493695664OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entranceWikidata ID
Q4863757
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Potok Cave” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كهف بوتوك”
- Azerbaijani: “Potok mağarası”
- Bosnian: “Potočka zijalka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كهف بوتوك”
- German: “Potočka zijavka”
- German: “Potocnik-Höhle”
- Hungarian: “Potočka-barlang”
- Japanese: “ポトク洞窟”
- Macedonian: “Поточка Пештера”
- Polish: “Potočka”
- Serbian: “Potočka zijalka”
- Serbian: “Поточка зијалка”
- Slovenian: “Arheološko najdišče Potočka zijalka”
- Slovenian: “Potočka zijalka”
- Slovenian: “Potočka zijavka”
- Turkish: “Potok Mağarası”
- Ukrainian: “Потоцька печера”
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