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Caves and potholes of Campania

The catalogue of Campania lists 1,236 caves, including 260 potholes and 867 caves. The longest is Grotte di Castelcivita (3,000 m) and the deepest is Grava del Fumo (443 m).

1,236 caves
6.7 km total length
443m max depth

Length adds each cave once (a system counts once), and depth is that of the deepest cave, canyons excluded. Without length data: 1,233. Without depth data: 350. Without known lithology: 1,236.

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Provinces

Salerno

889 caves
6.0 km
443m
🏆 Longest: Grotte di Castelcivita (3,000m)
⬇️ Deepest: Grava del Fumo (443m)

Napoli

154 caves
705 m
94m
🏆 Longest: Pausilippe (Grotte du) (705m)
⬇️ Deepest: Jala (Spacco della) (94m)

The figures of these places do not add up to the total: a cave can be in more than one place, or in none when its location has no lower level.

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. · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected]