104 Cueva de Fuente las Varas
Fuente las Varas VN5298(3)9920(0) Alt. 440m Length 200m Depth 30m

The entrance is at the end of a concrete drainage ditch at the side of the main road. Upstream to the right eventually becomes too low after 120m. The other route, after various contortions at roof level, drops into a washed-out shale band and ends at the head of a 27m pitch. The landing is in a high, sandy-floored rift. Upstream narrows down, but downstream carries a draught which disappears into a phreatic spongework. Digging could be a possibility? Water could feed Cueva de la Hoyuca (107) or it could be the water seen in Cueva de la Canal (101).

An undocumented trip in 1996 turned back in the nasty entrance passages.

It has been suggested that Fuente las Varas should be Fuente de las Varas

References: anon., 1978 (logbook); Corrin J et al, 1978 (survey); anon., 1979 (logbook); Addis F et al, 1979; Corrin J et al, 1981b; Corrin J S and Smith P, 1981; anon., 1981 (logbook); Corrin J, 1983c; material in file; anon., 2000c (Summer logbook)
Entrance picture : yes
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