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30: 37: 378: 260: 180:. As of 2007 it had over 120 km of mapped passages, which makes it the 13th longest cave in the world. Continued exploration faces typical temperatures of up to 30 Cº. 73: 339: 330: 187:, 23 km long, which is Brazil's second longest. It is the largest cave in the world generated by the process of dissolution of 419: 29: 412: 438: 448: 208: 453: 213: 196: 405: 393: 283: 8: 443: 165: 317: 312:
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Toca da Boa Vista, Bahia state – the longest known cave in the Southern Hemisphere
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Toca da Boa Vista is within 2 km of another significant cave named
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Map showing the location of Toca da Boa Vista
Campo Formoso
10°09′45″S 40°51′35″W / 10.162500°S 40.859722°W / -10.162500; -40.859722 (Toca da Boa Vista)
Limestone
cave
Southern hemisphere
Campo Formoso
Bahia
Brazil
Toca da Barriguda
dolomite
sulfides
23rd longest cave system in the world
List of caves in Brazil
List of longest caves
"As maiores cavernas do Brasil"


"Você sabia que a Toca da Boa Vista é a maior caverna do Brasil?"
"Long caves of the world"
Online
Base de Dados do Ministerio do Meio Ambiente
10°09′45″S 40°51′35″W / 10.16250°S 40.85972°W / -10.16250; -40.85972
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caving
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