Grotte André
A cavity with tiered chambers, shafts and a forced conduit, whose lowest point lies at -72 m.
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Grotte André
A cavity with tiered chambers, shafts and a forced conduit, whose lowest point lies at -72 m.
Douzens
Length: 140 m · Depth: 72 m
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A cavity with tiered chambers, shafts and a forced conduit, whose lowest point lies at -72 m.
Description
Morphology
A P 2.5 leads into a chamber hollowed out along a bedding plane, with an average height of 1.5 m. A second chamber is adjacent to the first. A passage between blocks gives access, via small steps, to a third, sloping chamber, slightly decorated with speleothems. A low passage followed by crawls under blocks leads to a R 2, the base of a 10 m shaft. Another R 2 opens into a large, downward-sloping forced conduit ending at the U-shaped crawl. A tortuous P 20 leads, after a flat-out squeeze, into the largest chamber of the cavity, its floor strewn with large blocks. On the sides, three shafts rise for a few metres. At the back of the chamber and beneath the blocks, a P 7 in a joint leads to the lowest point of the Grotte at -72 m, where rock blades obstruct the passage.
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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/34279 · 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 Cds 11 · 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/34279 · data as of 2026