Tresviso Caves Project

Tresviso Caves Project Gazetter

RUCC3: Torca de los Sozuntina

Area:Oceno
East, North:359679, 4794607 (nearby)
Coordinate Quality:Map (yellow map)
Long, Lat:-4.7297281112932, 43.291186630199 (map)
Elevation (m):973
Length (m):0
Depth (m):-75
System:
Active Lead:
Survey Available:

Approach

Situated in intensely vegetated area on the slopes behind Ocenoat

Entrance

Large 5m x 4m entrance opening to 75m pitch

Description

Shaft is 75m, with large ledge 35m down. The shaft bells out into an elliptical shaped chamber, the floor of which is littered with tree trunks. On the left a passage leads off through a series of avens into a low bedding plane, decorated with helictites. This ends in a small chamber (4m x 2m) with a roof consisting of loosely cemented blocks. A climb up one of the avens lead to interesting roof series of small circular phreatic tubes

Reference

RUCC (1972)

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