Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grotte Etcheberriko-Kharbia
Camou-Cihigue, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Grotte Etcheberriko-Kharbia contenant des peintures préhistoriques (cad. C 469, 479, 480, 481) : classement par arrêté du 29 septembre 1952
- Protection dates
- 1952/09/29 : classé MH
- Type
- grotte ornée
- Main period of construction
- Paléolithique supérieur
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Camou-Cihigue
- Département
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.12323, -0.91802
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084370
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1772 map "87. Mapa del reyno de Navarra" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Figurations pariétales avec chevaux, bouquetins, bisons réparties en deux points de la grotte.
English translation
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History
Parietal depictions with horses, ibexes, bison distributed at two points of the cave.
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