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RUCC2: Cueva de Oceno
Area:Oceno
East, North:358798, 4795526 (nearby)
Coordinate Quality:Map (yellow map)
Long, Lat:-4.7408192416314, 43.299293461963 (map)
Elevation (m):499
Length (m):250
Depth (m):0
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Approach
Situated 100m above the road to Oceno at the hairpin bend, approx 2km from Oceno

Entrance
Small bricked up entrance

Description
The entrance has been bricked up to use as a cheese store (1972). After a few metres a steep flowstone slope is descended for 20m into a 2m wide rift passage. This splits at a small chamber, the left hand passage is a meandering rift ending with a large flow formation completely blocking the passage. Straight on from the chamber passes the limit of the cheese remnants and enters a large descending passage 20-25m high (15m wide). This leads to a 5m pitch into the main chamber. At the bottom of the pitch, to the right, a well decorated and partially mud filled series of tube passages leads off, but after a short distance these end in a sediment filled choke containing bones
Straight on from the base of the pitch leads into a large chamber containing superb formations together with evidence of a massive collapse, in the shape of huge slabs (20m x 10m x 10m). the chamber contains large calcite rose crystal growths. A number of passages lead off from the main chamber but do not extend for any great distance.

Reference
RUCC (1972)

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