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More than 80,000 caves freely accessible on Grottocenter

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  Thanks to the data placed under a free license, the contributions of the partners of the Wikicaves association and the involvement of the contributors to Grottocenter, the number of available caves has just exceeded 80,000. Thank you all


 

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