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Aven de la Fourmilière

Small cavity whose entrance at the foot of a boulder leads to a pit and a widening, ending in a narrow, choked sinkhole.

Aumelas 5m

Small cavity whose entrance at the foot of a boulder leads to a pit and a widening, ending in a narrow, choked sinkhole.

Characteristics

  • Type: Pothole
  • Municipality: Aumelas
  • Depth: 5 meters
  • Record updated:

Location

Mapa

Entrances

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  1. Aven de la Fourmilière

    43.594467, 3.632445
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Description

Morphology

A small entrance (0.4 m x 0.6 m), at the foot of a boulder, opens into a pit followed by a widening.

Hydrology

The bottom continues as a narrow, choked sinkhole.

Progression

Exploration completed.

Other details

General description in 2001.

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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/74715 · 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 Marc Jupin (Description générale en 2001) · 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/74715 · data as of 2026