Aven de Muret
The Aven de Muret, or Aven Agalède, at Muret-le-Château in Aveyron, opens through Un pit (shaft) of 12 metres onto galleries and a periodic lac souterrain (underground lake).
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Aven de Muret
The Aven de Muret, or Aven Agalède, at Muret-le-Château in Aveyron, opens through Un pit (shaft) of 12 metres onto galleries and a periodic lac souterrain (underground lake).
Muret-le-Château
Length: 230 m · Depth: 20 m
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The Aven de Muret, or Aven Agalède, at Muret-le-Château in Aveyron, opens through Un pit (shaft) of 12 metres onto galleries and a periodic lac souterrain (underground lake).
Description
Morphology
It opens through Un pit (shaft) of 12 metres giving access to several galleries, with an initial development of about 230 metres and a depth of 20 metres.
Speleothems
The cavity presents calcite concretions, cave pearls and Clay deposits.
Hydrology
Traces of ancient runoff are present, and an old bed of a small fossil stream is also reported. The terminal lake fills and empties periodically, following an annual cycle described in the inventory.
Other details
The cavity presents calcite concretions, traces of ancient flows and a periodic lac souterrain (underground lake).
History
The first documented explorations date back to 1956.
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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/168549 · 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 KDD122 (Description géologique et hydrologique), KDD122 (description) · 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/168549 · data as of 2026