Cholesiowa Jama – Nature Reserve
Practical Information
- Detailed InformationZwińRozwiń
- Object type:
- Nature reserves
- County:
- kielecki
- Community:
- Piekoszów
- Address:
- Jaworznia
- Latitude:
- 50.8658863432
- Longitude:
- 20.481033326068
- Tourist region:
- Kielce Region
- Organizer name:
- Head Office of the Świętokrzyski and Nadnidziański Landscape Parks
- Organizer data:
- 25-655 Kielce, ul. Łódzka 244
- Phone:
- +48 41 345 58 80
- Website:
- www.pk.kielce.pl
Description
Together with the Jaworznicka Cave in Jaworznia near Kielce it forms a geological complex that creates Poland"s tenth longest cave (3670 m) with height difference of 61 meters. It is the longest cave in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. The cave galleries feature oval hollows filled with calcite, huge caverns, karst fissures, and chimneys. Very characteristic for the Cholesiowa Jama are abrupt changes of its structure as for example sudden differences in the size of its hollows and transformation of depression hollows into typical karst corridors. The reserve contains two inoperative quarries and the top of Mt Kopaczowa that is built of Devonian limestone. It occupies a part of the Chęciny and Kielce Landscape Park and functions as a stop on the geological educational trail.