Aven de Saint-Maurice
An unassuming but very pretty outing, with a 34-metre entrance shaft leading to two successive chambers and a network of slides and shafts.
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Aven de Saint-Maurice
An unassuming but very pretty outing, with a 34-metre entrance shaft leading to two successive chambers and a network of slides and shafts.
Saint-Maurice-Navacelles
Length: 160 m · Depth: 61 m
Updated record
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An unassuming but very pretty outing, with a 34-metre entrance shaft leading to two successive chambers and a network of slides and shafts.
Description
Morphology
Entrance shaft 34 metres deep, ending in two successive chambers separated by a narrower passage.
A ledge gives onto a double constriction, then onto the top of a somewhat muddy slide, followed by a traverse on the left that passes above two blind shafts, before a new slippery slide that gives onto a fine, wide, decorated P26.
Speleothems
The P26 is wide and decorated.
Progression
From the bottom of the shaft, a fixed rope (to be used with caution!) allows you to climb back up towards the rest of the network.
On reaching a ledge, a double constriction brings you to the top of a somewhat muddy slide, followed by a traverse on the left that passes above two blind shafts, before a new slippery slide that gives onto a fine, wide, decorated P26.
Other details
It is an unassuming outing, but very pretty.
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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/2502 · 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 résumée) · 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/2502 · data as of 2026