Can-i-Gut Cave

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Kan-i-Gut Cave is located in the Shodymir tract (Sarytau Ridge). It is a complex combination of large grottoes, vertical wells and winding corridors. The cave is through, its total length is 3 km. There are 18 grottoes in the cave, the largest of them reach 50 meters in length and 45 meters in height. Its entrance is 18 meters below the exit and 34 meters above the lowest point of the cave. The cave is dry and the air temperature is 10°.

Kan-i-Gut Cave is of karst origin. However, its configuration has been greatly changed due to the mining of iron and lead-silver ores deposited by water streams here in the past.

In addition, chemical reactions associated with the oxidation of sulfides played an important role in the dissolution of limestone and the formation of the cave. Kan-i-Gut cave is a part of the Pamir-Tyaninan speleological country.

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