Al Hoota Cave
( ar, كَهْف ٱلْهُوْتَه, Kahf Al-Hūtah) is a cave located in
Al-Hamra'
Al-Hamra' ( ar, الحمراء ) was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village in the Safad Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine, Safad Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948, by the ...
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Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate
Ad Dakhiliyah ( ar, الداخلية, Ad-Dāḫilīyah, meaning: The Interior) is one of the Governorates of Oman, governorates (''muhafazah'') of Oman with Nizwa town as the regional center. It was previously a region (''mintaqah''). It became a ...
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Oman
Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of ...
, that is long. The cave was first discovered by locals several hundred years ago and was officially opened as a tourist destination in December 2006.
The
Omani blind cave fish lives in this cave system.
Stalagmites from this cave yield data on the palaeoclimate.
[FLEITMANN, D., J. Haldon, R. Bradley, S. Burns, Hai Cheng, R. Edwards, C. Raible, M. Jacobson, A. Matter 2022. Droughts and societal change: The environmental context for the emergence of Islam in late antique Arabia, Science 376, 1317–21.]
References
External links
Official website
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Caves of Oman
Wild caves