Aven de l'Esquirol
An old underground conduit of fine cross-section, the entrance shaft drops you into the middle of the tube, amid a jumble of blocks, deep pools, gours, stalactites and large ornate draperies.
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Aven de l'Esquirol
An old underground conduit of fine cross-section, the entrance shaft drops you into the middle of the tube, amid a jumble of blocks, deep pools, gours, stalactites and large ornate draperies.
La Vacquerie-et-Saint-Martin-de-Castries
Length: 170 m · Depth: 40 m
Updated record
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An old underground conduit of fine cross-section, the entrance shaft drops you into the middle of the tube, amid a jumble of blocks, deep pools, gours, stalactites and large ornate draperies.
Description
Morphology
An old underground conduit of fine cross-section, the entrance shaft brings you into the middle of the tube.
On one side, you come out at a jumble of blocks through which you must squeeze to find the ceiling of the conduit again.
On the other side, the continuation lies at the far end, in front of a crawlway that follows the old vault.
Speleothems
Magnificent stalactites, fine gours and large ornate draperies.
Progression
On one side, after the jumble of blocks, you must squeeze through to find the ceiling of the conduit and follow it crawling through a series of small gours; you then arrive in a small chamber with a fine deep pool, and the continuation, very short and with a low ceiling, is opposite.
On the other side, you advance leaving another very deep pool on your left and arrive in front of a flowstone that you must take on the left; the continuation lies at the far end, in front of a crawlway that follows the old vault.
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Contains information from Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/235 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected] · data as of 2026 · Source: Grottocenter (Association Wikicaves), worldwide collaborative cave database (grottocenter.org), modified. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Grottocenter (Wikicaves) · Text by Titi (Description générale) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/235 · data as of 2026