0753 Torca de Rotura
Arredondo 30T 451110 4793033 Altitude 406m Length 85m Depth 71m
Updated 12th May 2002; 1st July 2009
A large shaft, rather like Rowten without the stream, labelled SCD2013.
A 45m pitch has a ledge 20m down and lands on a rock slope. A steep boulder
slope leads to a broken 15m pitch and a final 20m pitch to a sandy floored
chamber where a 10cm wide fissure emits a cold draught.
The information below has been roughly translated from the French,
Spéléo-Club de Dijon reference, Degouve de Nuncques Patrick
et Simonnot Guy, 1989 (in Sous le Plancher, no 4, 1989). The French reference
number for this site is SCD2013.
In the side of a small valley to the north of Arredondo, on a sloping
moor, fifty meters above a hut. Easy access by road then along the track
of Llaneces. At the end, taking a path along the hillside for ten minutes
towards the hut of Rotura reaches the site. Explored in October 1988.
A pretty p48 is followed by shorter verticals (p20; p5) leading down to -73
in a small choked chamber. A narrow fissure emits a violent draught. This
hole could be the source of Fuentes (No 2018). (Site
1756).
References: anon., 1989 (logbook); material in file; Degouve
de Nuncques Patrick et Simonnot Guy, 1989 (survey); anon., 2009b (Whit logbook)
Entrance picture :
Underground picture(s):
Detailed Survey : yes (from
Degouve de Nuncques Patrick et Simonnot Guy, 1989)
Line Survey :
On area survey :
Survex file : yes