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Mayor Pilar Barreiro, along with the councilman of Tourism Javier Herrero and Councilman Nicholas Angel Bernal, representing the City of Cartagena in the Sierra Minera Tourist Consortium, among others, have visited this morning the excavation of the Victoria Cave, a large reservoir located on the eastern slope of Cerro de San Ginés de la Jara and where it has found many fossils, human remains and animal species never before studied.
After a tour of the site, the mayor stressed that it is studying the project to incorporate the Cueva Victoria as a tourist resource of the District of Cartagena and visited when researchers do what they wish.
Barreiro has indicated that it is negotiating the acquisition of 19,000 square meters of the cave (3,500 m natural galleries and mining) and infrastructure has provided researchers with an investment of 146,000 euros to 600,000 euros which plans to invest Tourist Consortium.
Victoria Cave is a paleontological site, with a great variety in the fauna of fossil vertebrates, up to 60 found, and within, human remains (a phalanx human whole - probably one of the oldest human remains identified in Europe - and two pieces of humerus), African fauna was first described in Europe, new species are described and never appearing swans and exotic birds as woodpeckers, more typical of other latitudes.
La Cueva Victoria is being excavated for 25 years, first by Dr. Joseph Gilbert and later by his son Louis, who has taken over the investigation.
The data collected indicate that it was a den of hyenas, which were responsible for collecting carrion of all kinds in the Victoria Cave environment into the cave to almentar the young, which explains the high range of fossil species.
Fossils that are being cataloged and transferred to the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Cartagena 'Enrique Escudero de Castro. "
With the new infrastructure, the installation of a scaffold, a new stage in the excavation of the Victoria Cave, as it will allow in-situ study the material, which will help you understand the process of accumulation of fossils over time .
As for the mining interest, Victoria Cave was an important source of manganese and have also found traces of other metals such as gold.
The mining activity in the early twentieth century, has eliminated 90% of the existing fossil material.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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