Cave of the Pigs

The cave of the Cochinos is a shelter with rock representations located in the municipal district of Los Barrios, province of Cádiz (Spain). It belongs to the group of rock deposits called Southern art, closely related to the rock art of the Mediterranean arch of the Iberian Peninsula.

The shelter formed by erosion of sandstone is located in the hill of the Garlitos, next to the valley of Valdespera, very close to the Cueva del Mediano and the Cave of the Thieves. Although there are several covillas in the surroundings that shows representations has an opening of 14 meters wide and 7 high with a depth of approximately 7 meters. The coat, along with its rock representations, were first described by the French archaeologist Henri Breuil in 1929 in his work Rock paintings of Southern Andalusia. A description of a neolithic and copper age Art Group where he published a tracing of the paintings visible at that time. The French author described two large zoomorphic figures identified by him as two deer at a height of 5 meters. In the mid-1980s the German writer Uwe Topper in his description of the caves of the region could not locate these paintings and found the collapse of part of the coat.

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