Line Cave is one of the most important caves in Los Haitises National Park, it is located in the Caño Preso area, on the edge of an extensive mangrove swamp, the name of La Línea or Railroad cave derives from the existence of a old railway line in its surroundings that served to take the rice production of the area to a dock.
The cave has a development of about 600 meters and sunlight is observed throughout the route. More than 950 still visible paintings can be counted in this cavern, although the cave must have contained many more, since there are many areas with evidence that the paintings they contained were erased, mostly due to natural causes.
No petroglyphs have been located, a very rare situation in caves that have a large number of paintings inside. In the cave there is a large deposit of shells from the pre-Hispanic occupation of the cave.
This cavern is the most important in the park in relation to the rock art it contains. It is located in the Caño Preso area, on the edge of an extensive mangrove swamp. The name Line Cave or del Ferrocarril derives from the existence of an old railway line in its surroundings that was used to take rice production from the area to a dock, the cave has a development of about 600 meters and the sunlight throughout the route.
This cave is named after the old railway that had its tracks right in front of the cave entrance and was used to transport bananas and rice. It is also known as “the cave of the Temple” because it looks like an altar due to the hundreds of pictograms and petroglyphs on its walls.
There are still more than 950 paintings on its walls despite the time that has passed, but there are also some of them that, as you can see, have disappeared, so it is believed that the cave could have had many more paintings.
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