Abisso Tortuga
Cave with a slide entrance that develops along a main joint with pits and narrow passages, a fork at about -70 and the current bottom at about -140, stopped at a narrow passage with strong airflow.
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Abisso Tortuga
Cave with a slide entrance that develops along a main joint with pits and narrow passages, a fork at about -70 and the current bottom at about -140, stopped at a narrow passage with strong airflow.
Roccaforte Mondovì
Length: 450 m · Depth: 140 m
Updated record
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Cave with a slide entrance that develops along a main joint with pits and narrow passages, a fork at about -70 and the current bottom at about -140, stopped at a narrow passage with strong airflow.
Description
Morphology
The slide entrance gives access to a sequence of pits and narrow passages oriented along the main joint. At about -70 the cave forks: the <grey branch> leads, with a sequence of small pits and a toboggan, to the old bottom (-106), while the <pink branch> leads to a P25 with difficult access, followed by a wide sub-horizontal branch that morphologically is a crossing point with other arrivals not yet explored. Along the final gallery a barely visible toboggan leads to a further deepening and to the current bottom (about -140), stopped at a narrow passage with strong airflow, currently being dug open.
History
Exploration began more than 10 years ago, with extensive digging and safety works. The exploration, suspended for some years, has recently been resumed.
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Source: Catasto speleologico del Piemonte e della Valle d'Aosta (AGSP, catastogrotte-piemonte.net) (catastogrotte-piemonte.net), modified. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Associazione Gruppi Speleologici Piemontesi (AGSP), Catasto Speleologico Piemontese e Valdostano · Text by Marco Massola (Descrizione), Marco Massola (Itinerario), Marco Massola (Storia) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ · https://catastogrotte-piemonte.net/caves-view-3069.html · data as of 2026