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Caves and potholes of Lombardy

The catalogue of Lombardy lists 6,543 caves, including 922 potholes and 5,173 caves. The longest is Fornitori (Ingresso) (68,288 m) and the deepest is Ovest le Donne (1,313 m).

6,543 caves
155.8 km total length
1,313m max depth

Length adds each cave once (a system counts once), and depth is that of the deepest cave, canyons excluded. Without length data: 6,514. Without depth data: 873. Without known lithology: 6,543.

The 20 longest

Full ranking: longest caves in Lombardy

The 20 deepest

Full ranking: deepest caves and potholes in Lombardy

Map

Provinces

Bergamo

2,002 caves
37.0 km
672m
🏆 Longest: Abisso Bueno Fonteno (35,000m)
⬇️ Deepest: Abisso Bueno Fonteno (672m)

Lecco

1,941 caves
26.4 km
1,313m
🏆 Longest: Ovest le Donne (25,396m)
⬇️ Deepest: Ovest le Donne (1,313m)

Como

739 caves
68.3 km
557m
🏆 Longest: Fornitori (Ingresso) (68,288m)
⬇️ Deepest: Voragine di Monte Bul (557m)

Varese

478 caves
3.9 km
640m
🏆 Longest: Via col Vento (3,000m)
⬇️ Deepest: Grotta G.V. Schiaparelli (640m)

Pavia

9 caves
150 m
20m
🏆 Longest: Grotta di Guardamonte (75m)
⬇️ Deepest: Ratatuia (20m)

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]