Portugal David Ceballos · CC BY 2.0
The descent
The entrance, at 26 m.
The real relief above Algar de Benagil, measured on the Copernicus model every 30 m, and the cave going down at the same vertical scale.
The depth is the one published by those who explored it; the shape of the galleries is a sketch, not a survey. No depth has been published for this cave yet.
26m
Entrance altitude
from the 30 m relief model
52m
Rock above
the highest point within 1.5 km
Cave in Portugal
Algar de Benagil is a cave in Portugal. The entrance is at 26 m. It has the sea at its mouth.
Getting there.
- Wild cave: only with caving equipmentNo paths or lights inside. Go only with a caving club or a qualified guide.
- Carvoeironearest town · 4.1 km in a straight line
- Viewpointsnearest viewpoint · 0.4 km from the entrance
- Portimão Airport (PRM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 16 km in a straight lineCar hire at FAO airport (Faro)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
Guided tours, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above.
The ground above the cave, with the relief shaded, the line of the section and what people have mapped around the entrance.
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1.5 km
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6.0 × 6.0 km, north up. The line is the section above. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Around the entrance.
- 6other cave entrances within 3 kmGruta de Benagil - Entrada Pequena, Gruta de Benagil - Entrada Grande and 4 more
- 30sinkholes within 3 km
- 8viewpoints within 3 km
- 1marked hiking routes within 3 kmPercurso dos Sete Vales Suspensos
- 37car parks within 2 km
- 16information boards and visitor centres within 3 km
- 7bus stops within 2 km
- 7campsites within 8 kmOasis campsite, Ferragudo, 49 Rua de Vale da Azenhaga, Parque de Campismo de Ferragudo and 4 more
- 497hotels and guesthouses within 8 kmUkino Terrace Algarve Concept, Vila da Rocha, Baía Cristal and 494 more
- 27restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- springs within 2 km
- caving clubs and spots within 15 km
- climbing crags within 3 km
- named waterfalls within 4 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, around the entrance. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Towns nearby
- Carvoeiro4.1 km in a straight line
- Porches4.8 km in a straight line
- Lagoa6.0 km in a straight line
- Armação de Pêra6.2 km in a straight line
- Pêra8.3 km in a straight line
- Alcantarilha8.4 km in a straight line
- Estômbar8.5 km in a straight line
- Ferragudo9.4 km in a straight line
In our other atlases
What else is around Algar de Benagil.
The river at the entrance, the waterfalls, the lakes, the mountains and volcanoes above, the canyons, beaches and islands nearby — from our other atlases.
Coastya6 beaches within 3 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, NOAA, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
Inside and around.
Caves nearby.
Algar de Benagil
Portugal
- —Depth
- —Galleries
- 26 mEntrance altitude
- —Inside, all year
Escoural Cave
Portugal · 164 km
- —Depth
- —Galleries
- 362 mEntrance altitude
- 15 °CInside, all year
Gruta de las Maravillas
Spain · 187 km
- —Depth
- —Galleries
- 679 mEntrance altitude
- 15 °CInside, all year
Cuevas de Fuentes de León
Spain · 199 km
- —Depth
- —Galleries
- 618 mEntrance altitude
- 15 °CInside, all year
Where these figures come from
| Name, type, published depth and length, visitors | Wikidata (Q123359805) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| The relief above, the entrance altitude, the section and the 3D model | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Climate | NASA POWER, 1991–2020 |
| Entrances, springs, sinkholes, opening hours and what is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Rivers, waterfalls, lakes, mountains, canyons, beaches and islands nearby | Coastya, Lakeyas, Peakyas, Cascadyas, Islandyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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