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Cave of El Buxu

Cangas de Onís, Oriente, Asturias

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Cave of El Buxu

Nature · Cangas de Onís, Oriente, Asturias

Image of Cangas de Onís, not of the place itself.

A natural cavity discovered in 1916 next to the village of Cardes, in the concejo of Cangas de Onís, reached only on foot along a one-kilometre path. Studied by the Count of la Vega del Sella and Hugo Obermaier, it preserves examples of Solutrean and Magdalenian cave art: depictions of animals -horses, goats, deer and bison- and geometric figures called tectiforms, which may represent hunting traps. Among the finds is a cave bear canine engraved with the image of a bird, today in the Museo Arqueológico de Asturias, along with scrapers and other flint objects. It was declared a monument in 1985 and inspired the illustrator and archaeologist Roberto Frassinelli.

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