207 Fuente de la Cuvia
Riaño VN51459987 Alt. 190m Length 735m

Updated 18th April 1999; 14th May 2000; 22nd February 2001

The draughting entrance is above the resurgence and is a tight downwards squeeze into a low streamway.

Crawling upstream soon gives way to walking in a small vadose stream passage and, by keeping to the right, a chamber is reached some 80m from the entrance. Just back from here on the left, is the passage which carries the draught. This has been followed in a lowering streamway for about 200m until a calcite blockage stops progress.

Two routes are possible out of the main chamber. The right hand passage is walking and then a low crawl into a chamber; the left hand passage is lower, wider and contains some fine gour pools. This passage emerges in the roof of the chamber and it is possible to climb down. A couple of routes from here eventually combine in a cracked mud floor chamber which leads to 250m of walking and stooping in a well decorated passage. This ends at a low, wide bedding which, at Easter 2000, was poked out to the surface near a field of ostriches. A large flake prevents an exit.

About 80m back from the end is a well decorated alcove containing a large number of goat skeletons beneath a blocked-off surface shaft.

References: Kendal Caving Club and Manchester University Speleological Society, 1975; anon., 1980a (logbook); Corrin J et al, 1981b (survey); Corrin J, 1980 (photo); Mills L D J, 1981; Mills L D J and Waltham A C, 1981 (photo); Corrin J S and Smith P, 1981; material in file; anon., 1999a (Easter logbook); anon., 2000b (Easter logbook)
Entrance picture : yes
Underground picture(s): streamway 1  wide passage  formations 1  streamway 2  streamway 3
formations 2  formations 3 formations 4  formations 5  formations 6

Scanned slides by Peter Eagan. Click to enlarge.

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