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Members of the Regional Federation of Speleology Murcia held yesterday Tuesday, March 9, a further decline in the Sima del Vapor, located in the Castle hill town of Alhama de Murcia, whose summit is the ruin of an ancient fortress Arabic being restored.
According to statements made by the Councillor for the Environment, José Miguel Munoz, the City plans to enhance the natural resources of the municipality, with a production value of those elements represent the area also pose a long-standing historical significance level given the role always have played the hot springs in the town of Alhama.
The cave, with a temperature of 43 ° C to about 80 meters deep and 100% humidity, and present a low oxygenation of the atmosphere is one of the most atypical cavities, which are complicated and dangerous.
Federation Technical reporting technical difficulties, physical and mental so difficult to beat when practicing a descent into this cavity, noting that with such high temperatures, our bodies react by vasodilation, which produces a certain laziness and drowsiness that hinders the mobility, to which, adding the lack of oxygen existing in the impoverished atmosphere, this feeling is increased and therefore the risk and danger.
According to experts, have been mapped 80 meters from the cave, and that henceforth the narrowing of the continuing difficulty, showing that from the geological point of view we have a fracture associated with Guadalentín failure, one of the most important country after the Guadalquivir, and presents a great biodiversity on a biological level, both aspects in the process of study.
The mayor of Environment appreciated the work done by the caving team who was present during the morning of Tuesday (Andrés, Carlos and Ana), the Regional Federation of Speleology, while reporting that, as a culmination of research conducted on the field, there will be a unique exhibition that reveals the hidden Murcia: "The largest caves and sinkholes in the region of Murcia."
The opening will be Tuesday March 16 at 20:30 pm and last until April 11, 2010, at the Archaeological Museum of Los Baños.
Building on the opening day, it will give a lecture titled: "Vapor Sima Cerro del Castillo de Alhama, the warm gulf deeper Europe at 20:30 hours in the Archaeological Museum of Los Baños.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia
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