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Gouffre de la Reine

Le gouffre de la Reine is a succession of shaft-meanders that ends against a fault in a fill of clay and mondmilch.

Omex 140m 97m

Le gouffre de la Reine is a succession of shaft-meanders that ends against a fault in a fill of clay and mondmilch.

Characteristics

  • Type: Pothole
  • Municipality: Omex
  • Length: 140 meters
  • Depth: 97 meters
  • Record updated:

Location

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Entrances

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  1. Gouffre de la Reine

    43.092804, -0.082268
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Description

Morphology

Le gouffre de la Reine is a succession of shaft-meanders that ends against the fault in a fill of clay and mondmilch.

Progression

Le gouffre de la Reine was cleared to -17 by the GRAS. One is above the Escale de l'Ours, and a junction between these two cavities would allow a traverse of 320 metres of depth.

Other details

Source: CASSOU Jean-Pierre, SpéléOc n°77, 3rd quarter 1996, ISSN 0241-4104, Echos des Clubs, pages 14 to 16: http://www.comite-speleo-midipy.com/speleoc/Revues/speleoc77.pdf

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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/11689 · 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 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/11689 · data as of 2026