Santana, Brazil
Gruta do Padre
Gruta do Padre is a cave located halfway between the municipalities of Santana, Santa Maria da Vitória e Canápolis, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. It is currently the third-longest cave in the country being 16,400 meters long and unevenness of 125 meters. Discovered in 1914 by a priest who sought honey in hives that get stuck in the rocks, it was often a place of religious pilgrimage where the locals came to pay their promises until the 1950s.
- City
- Santana
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Nature
- Suggested visit
- About 150 minutes
Background: Wikipedia