Gouffre de l'Empogne
This pit begins with a large funnel and a 65-metre shaft broken into sections, then continues through shafts and narrow passages down to -183 metres.
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Gouffre de l'Empogne
This pit begins with a large funnel and a 65-metre shaft broken into sections, then continues through shafts and narrow passages down to -183 metres.
Anglefort
Length: 230 m · Depth: 183 m
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This pit begins with a large funnel and a 65-metre shaft broken into sections, then continues through shafts and narrow passages down to -183 metres.
Description
Morphology
The pit opens with a large funnel leading to a 65-metre shaft broken into lengths of 5, 25 and 35 metres, followed by a pretty 25-metre shaft, extended by a steep and unstable scree slope.
At the foot of the scree, a 2-metre step gives access through a narrow passage to a narrow 5-metre step, followed by a P12, also narrow at the start (-114 m).
A series of vertical narrow passages that were blasted lead to the top of a series of fairly vast shafts with speleothems: R3.5-P4 P8-P20-P12.
A very narrow meander followed by 2 steps of 3 and 5 metres end the cave at -183 m.
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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/5531 · 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 JIJI (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/5531 · data as of 2026