“Whether youre a caving enthusiast or just curious, youre welcome here!”
Welcome to one of Frances 3 most beautiful caves: La Cocalière, situated between the Cévennes and the Ardèche.
To arrive here, you followed the main regional road that connects the town of Alès to Aubenas (the RD 904-104 passing between St-Ambroix and St-Paul-le-Jeune) and at the Courry roundabout took our access road which leads to one of the sites huge and shady car parks. The site is located on the “Verdant Karst Gras”, also known as the “Garrigues plateau”. Here, you can find a multitude of sinkholes, dolines, and lapies as well as many prehistoric and protohistoric features such as sepulchral caves, tumuli, dolmens, dry stone huts and more.
This famous cave that youre about to visit was hollowed out of the limestone rock at the height of the Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian, Tithonian - between 146 and 135 million years ago), and is only one branch of a huge underground network covering thirty kilometres or so.
Its history began 35 million years ago (Eocene, Tertiary period) and is still continuing today, for La Cocalière is a living cave, which means it is still in formation and constantly changing.