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Pech Merle cave

decorated cave in southwestern France
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Summary

Pech Merle cave is a cave with prehistoric art[1]. It draws 2,336 Wikipedia views per month (cave with prehistoric art category, ranking #11 of 52).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Cabrerets[3]
  • Country: France[4]
  • Instance of: paleolithic site[5], show cave[6]
  • Commons category: Grotte du Pech Merle[7]
  • Heritage designation: classified historical monument[8]

Why It Matters

Pech Merle cave has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

France

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . Base Mérimée. wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . Base Mérimée. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Base Mérimée. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 20d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'be', 'ca', 'commons', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'gl', 'it', 'lt', '
    Gnd id → 4044994-4
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 14w ago · JYB Devot · 2026-07-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Pech Merle main.jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: Pech Merle main.jpg"
  3. 24w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Cabrerets
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 44.508056, 'lon': 1.644444}
    Coordinates → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Instance of: paleolithic site, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect paleolithic site → paleolithic site ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/Q49956097_Q"
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