Aven des Pitchounés
The Aven des Pitchounès, in the Var, opens through a cleared entrance onto a series of eroded shafts of 10, 8 and 13 metres, the last ending at an impassable fault.
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Aven des Pitchounés
The Aven des Pitchounès, in the Var, opens through a cleared entrance onto a series of eroded shafts of 10, 8 and 13 metres, the last ending at an impassable fault.
Signes
Depth: 32 m
Updated record
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The Aven des Pitchounès, in the Var, opens through a cleared entrance onto a series of eroded shafts of 10, 8 and 13 metres, the last ending at an impassable fault.
Description
Morphology
The fully cleared entrance gives access to Un (a) pit of 10 metres, very eroded. This leads to a fine 8-metre down-climb. A final pit of 13 metres, also eroded, ends at an impassable fault.
Progression
The fully cleared entrance gives access to Un (a) pit of 10 metres, very eroded, which leads to a fine 8-metre down-climb; a final pit of 13 metres, also eroded, ends at an impassable fault.
Other details
Geology: Barremian with Urgonian facies[ref]Article from the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipédia en français > "Barrémien": https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr%C3%A9mien[/ref][ref]Article from the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipédia en français > "faciès": https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faci%C3%A8s_(g%C3%A9ologie)[/ref][ref]Article from the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipédia en français > "Urgonien": https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urgonien[/ref]'[ref]Guillaume CHARDIN - CDS83, Fichier des cavités du Var > "Aven des Pitchounès" (number 2127289): http://www.fichiertopo.fr/display.php?details=1&indexid=1564[/ref].
Marked at the entrance in November 1997[ref]Guillaume CHARDIN - CDS83, Fichier des cavités du Var > "Aven des Pitchounès" (number 2127289): http://www.fichiertopo.fr/display.php?details=1&indexid=1564[/ref].
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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/27934 · 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 BTH (Géologie), BTH (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/27934 · data as of 2026