Oxo Latsidi Cave

At position Patelia , about 1 km NW of Sitanos and on the road to Katsidoni (from Sitanos ) we meet the large cave of Oxo Latsidi , formed in Jurassic limestone. It's name comes after the word latsida , used in Crete for sinkholes.

It was originally accessible for 50m. It was later studied by Paul Faure and mapped by Eleftherios Platakis and Ioannis Tsifetakis , who found a long tunnel, 360m long.

After the entrance we meet a room (34m x 16m) and a chamber on the right (32m). On the left, for 330m extends the tunnel with a width of 2-8 m and a height from 0.5m-1.5m.

Recent surveys give the cave a longer length exceeding 2.500 m, as it is a complex system of underground rivers. Generally the decoration is poor, compared to the rest caves of the Sitia Geopark .

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