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Aven du Sculpteur

The Aven du Sculpteur, in a lapiaz, descends through two pits to -30 before a narrow tuyère and a final small pit with a clay floor.

Évenos 38m

The Aven du Sculpteur, in a lapiaz, descends through two pits to -30 before a narrow tuyère and a final small pit with a clay floor.

Characteristics

  • Type: Pothole
  • Municipality: Évenos
  • Depth: 38 meters
  • Record updated:

Location

The entrance opens at the bottom of a very steep scree slope, in a lapiaz.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Aven du Sculpteur

    43.212725, 5.936693
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Description

Morphology

The first pit drops to -10 onto a scree slope. The second pit, helical in its first part, stops at -30 on a ledge (the palier du Gary Griou); it is accompanied by small ledges every 5 to 6 metres. At -30, a very narrow 5-metre tuyère gives access to the last small pit of the cavity.

Other details

The bottom is obstructed by clay. The entrance was marked in September 1996[ref]Guillaume CHARDIN - CDS83, Fichier des cavités du Var > "Aven du Sculpteur" (numéro 2053119) : https://www.fichiertopo.fr/display.php?details=1&indexid=1824[/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/27412 · 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 (Description sommaire) · 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/27412 · data as of 2026