Concept in Definition ABC

The word cave is the one that we normally use to designate the underground cavity or that is established between rocks, that is, that is below the ground, above the surface, and that can be natural or artificial.

Cavity that is underground, that can be originated naturally by various geological processes or artificially and that knows how to be the home of humans and animals

In the case of natural caves, generally, they are natural cavities within a terrain that originated as a consequence of erosion on streams of lava, water, ice, or by a mixture of both issues.

Also, another factor in creating a natural cave is the dissolution of limestone rock from contact with acidic water.

Historically, caves were used by both human beings and animals as a place of protection against the aggressive action of the various climatic agents, and also to defend themselves from some predators, even today, many animals continue to use them as purple.

An intrinsic characteristic of the caves is that they are dark and humid as a consequence that the sunlight does not enter them.

Classification

It should be noted that caves can be classified as: primary caves, because they were born at the same time as the rock that surrounds them, while the secondary caves are those that are generated in situ in the rocks after they have formed and after the succession of a process in which the rock decomposes and loses matter to erosion.

And within the secondary ones it is plausible to find the following types: sea ​​caves (they conform on the shores of the seas), ice caves (they are born in the lower part of a glacier after its melting or by an ice current) karst caves (They are formed in calcareous rocks after the dissolution of the rock).

Expressions of ancestral human culture

The caves have been studied throughout history by various professionals since in them man has opportunely expressed his art and culture and this allowed us to know much more about our ancestors; one of the most famous have been those of Altamira where you can see the cave paintings, which consisted of paintings of animals that were going to be hunted, or the hands of man painted on their walls.

There are animals such as rats, rabbits, or kangaroos, which create their own caves by digging the earth.

Clandestine places where dollars or other currencies are exchanged

And in use colloquial of some Spanish-speaking countries, such is the case of Argentina, is called cave to those clandestine redoubts in which exchange operations are carried out outside the official exchange market.

In these so-called caves of change that are normally camouflaged as places of buying and selling gold or antiques, citizens or tourists can change foreign exchange without the need to accredit identity, as if it happens and they should do it if the operation is carried out on an entity financial official, such is the case of banks.

Many people use them because they cannot justify their purchase or sale in relation to their income, and then to avoid leaving a record of these money movements that they carry out they go to the caves.

While also, on the other hand, in the specific case of Argentina, when it was restricted the purchase and sale of dollars as a consequence of the measure known as the foreign exchange stocks, which imposed the government of Cristina Kirchner from 2011 and until 2015 when she left power, it was usual for people to buy and sell dollars, euros, among others, in this marginal market and not official, which of course charged the sale more expensive than in the official dollar, but of course, very few could access it due to the control issue, exhaustive that existed.

At present these caves continue to exist in Argentina, although of course, they have lost space after the liberation of the stocks and the possibility of buying and selling dollars freely, in this new exchange system tax by the government of Mauricio Macri which consists of free floating.

Cave Themes