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Tafkos Mavri pothole
Caves · Rethymnon Prefecture

Tafkos Mavri pothole

Rating
3.5
difficulty
Hard
km · Anogeia
16
Anogeia
Tafkos Mavri pothole 2
Tafkos Mavri pothole 3

20 nearbyAravanes Wood, Platania Gorge, Saint Nicholas Church at Platania

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The  sinkhole Tafkos Mavri ( black sinkhole ) is located above the village Vistagi at an altitude of 1450 meters and has a total explored depth of around 200m with vertical rappels reaching 50 meters  high and huge rooms that exceed 1500 sq.m.. The cavers have found bones (horns) of Cretan wildgoats that have disappeared from Psiloritis Range since the Ottoman Era (around 1800 AD).

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