Hodobana Cave is a active cave of large size in the Bihor Mountains, in Apuseni Carpathians. The cave is located in the village Hodobana, Arieşeni, Alba County.
After the description made by Paul Damm and Calin Pop, the entering of the cave was discovered by F. Păroiu (ALive Fire Bucharest) and N. Sasu in April of 1979, exploring then only 25 meters from the entrance gallery. In August of that year, the two cavers with Eva Gyorfi, go through several hundred meters of galleries, reaching by the Hope Shaft a draintrap located at 119 meters, namely a severe distress in the Coralitelor gallery at +54meters.
Hodobana Cave’s mapping was done mostly during 1980, in September reaching a development of 15,752 meters. In 1981 however, despite their efforts, it offered only minor findings, which however climbed the network’s lenght to 18 326 meters. The last great discovery was to be conducted on December 30, 1981 by L. Vălenaş and Mircea Tent, by entering into a multi-leveled network related to the second tributary of the Grand River. The mapping action, at which was also attended G. Popescu, Ildikó Bogdan, Calin Brad and N. Stoica-Negulescu, would lead to achieving a length of 20,542 meters.
In the cave weren’t made any systematic excavations, but the place can offer many surprises.
