Description
Temperatures in the cave are low. Vegetation grows thickly at the mouth, where rains can cause waterfalls cascading into the cave. The cave floor is covered with a thick layer of debris and guano on which "millipedes, insects, snakes, and scorpions" live. There is also a narrow sinkhole in a fault of lower Cretaceous limestone which goes down at least a further 512 m.
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