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Pozzo A-6 di Piaggia Bella

A pit that opens in a doline, with a gallery 5 to 10 m wide inclined about 30° that ends at -49, choked with mud and scree.

Briga Alta 91m 49m

A pit that opens in a doline, with a gallery 5 to 10 m wide inclined about 30° that ends at -49, choked with mud and scree.

Characteristics

  • Type: Pothole
  • Municipality: Briga Alta
  • Cadastre no.: PI536
  • Length: 91 meters
  • Depth: 49 meters
  • Record updated:

Location

It opens about thirty meters south of the Gola del Visconte.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Pozzo A-6 di Piaggia Bella

    Elevation: 2283 m

    44.170222, 7.712611
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Description

Morphology

The entrance is formed by a doline at the bottom of which a gallery 5 to 10 m wide starts, running SW. The gallery continues at an inclination of about 30° down to the bottom, where it closes, choked with mud and scree, at a depth of -49.

Other details

No air current.

History

The pit was discovered and explored in the '60s by the GSP. It was subsequently surveyed, in 1973, by the Nice speleologists of the CMS.

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Source: Catasto speleologico del Piemonte e della Valle d'Aosta (AGSP, catastogrotte-piemonte.net) (catastogrotte-piemonte.net), modified. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Associazione Gruppi Speleologici Piemontesi (AGSP), Catasto Speleologico Piemontese e Valdostano · Text by Massimo Taronna (Descrizione) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ · https://catastogrotte-piemonte.net/caves-view-464.html · data as of 2026