Skip to main content

Aven du Mas Miquel

Large sloping chamber of the aven du mas Miquel, about thirty metres long and 12 m wide, extended by a small ogival chamber and a low gallery.

Vingrau 50m 25m

Large sloping chamber of the aven du mas Miquel, about thirty metres long and 12 m wide, extended by a small ogival chamber and a low gallery.

Characteristics

  • Type: Pothole
  • Municipality: Vingrau
  • Length: 50 meters
  • Depth: 25 meters
  • Record updated:

Location

Map

Entrances

Always verify coordinates and access conditions before setting out.

  1. Aven du Mas Miquel

    42.888270, 2.796350
Download all entrances as GPX

Description

Morphology

It is a large sloping chamber oriented NE, about thirty metres long by 12 wide at its greatest width and under 3 to 6 m of ceiling depending on the spot.

The steep, uneven slope of 40° on average is covered with rocky scree. It lands in its lower part on a horizontal clay floor. At this level, the vertical drop is at most 25 metres.

Before reaching the final clay floor, an opening in the slope gives access to a small clayey ogival chamber of 5 m x 4 m and 4 metres high.

The bottom of the large chamber at the clay bed drops suddenly and a low gallery of 0.8 metre oriented North allows one to reach, after 5 metres, a small chamber of 2.6 metres in diameter whose continuation was closed by a 30 cm squeeze.

Energetically chiselled, the squeeze gives passage towards a descending bulge from which starts a small horizontal gallery cluttered with a filling of dense clay blocks.

Speleothems

The cavity is moreover very rich in speleothems.

Progression

The cavity is reached by a large P6 with an opening of 2 m x 1.6 m.

After the chiselled squeeze, the passage is now made by crawling towards a descending bulge.

User Comments (0)

No comments yet.

Be the first to share your experience!

Registered Explorations (0)

No explorations registered yet.

Register your visit to this cave!

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/93219 · 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 GROPIX (Description générale de l'aven du mas Miquel) · 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/93219 · data as of 2026