An underground pool thought to be the deepest of its kind in the world has been discovered in the Sorbas nature park during the latest cave mapping exercise.
A group of cavers dedicated to charting the underground cave network concluded nine years of explorations on March 24, mapping out a further three kilometres of cave galleries.
Among the discoveries found by the Grupo de Trabajo de Sorbas (GTS) was a 54-metre deep pool, named Sima Ada, considered to be the largest in the world formed in a karst (gypsum and limestone) landscape.
A further five ‘simas’ (pools or chasms) were charted, along with a series of caverns leading off a cave known as Cueva del Lapo that was first discovered 30 years ago.
