The réseau Félix-Trombe or Coume Ouarnède is an underground karst network formed by a succession of wells and galleries dug into the limestone.
It is a mythical network for speleologists from all over the world. It takes its name from a famous French speleologist:
Félix Trombe
Félix Trombe (1906–1985) was a French engineer and speleologist.
He was born in Nogent and died in Ganties. He is best known for his pioneering work in passive solar building design with the Trombe wall, which bears his name. He is also ...
.
Geography
The ''réseau Félix-Trombe'' is located on the Arbas massif in the
Pyrénées
The Pyrenees are a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. They extend nearly from their union with the Cantabrian Mountains to Cap de Creus on the Mediterranean coast, reaching a maximum elevation of at the peak of Aneto.
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, south of the
département
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. There are a total of 101 ...
in the
région
France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (, singular ), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have ...
Occitanie.
The network
The Félix-Trombe network is the longest underground network in France with kilometres of galleries and 61 entrances. With the Henne Morte (), it makes the Réseau Félix Trombe-Henne Morte. It is a complex cavity due to its significant overall difference in altitude () and its numerous entrances.
On 15 and 16 September 2001 in 22 hours, about twenty cavers travelled the entire network from the former highest point (the Gouffre de la Coquille) to the lowest point of the network (the Goueil di Her).
Collectif pour la traversée intégrale du réseau Trombe
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The main cavities that make up this network are:[ :
Also included are: :
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See also
* List of caves in France
The following article shows a List of caves in France:
Caves
* Aven Armand
* Bédeilhac Cave
* Bétharram caves
* Bournillon cave, the highest cave opening in Europe.
* Bruniquel Cave, an archaeological site dated at 176,000 years with stalag ...
* List of caves
This is a list of caves of the world that have articles or that are properly cited. They are sorted by continent and then country. Caves which are in overseas territories on a different continent than the home country are sorted by the territory' ...
* List of longest caves
This list of longest caves includes caves in which the combined length of documented passageways exceeds . In some of these caves, passageways are still being discovered.
Geographical distribution
Caves are found around the world. The largest ...
* Speleology
Speleology () is the scientific study of caves and other karst features, as well as their chemical composition, composition, structure, physical property, physical properties, history, ecology, and the processes by which they form (speleogenes ...
Further reading
* {{Cite book , ref=none , lang=fr, last=Félix, first=Trombe, title=''Le Mystère de La Henne Morte'', publisher=Jeanne Laffitte, date=1998, page=128, isbn=2-7348-0743-2
Notes and references
Caves of France
Karst caves