YAGANTI SINK, Katikavanikunia

(Banaganapalle - IN)
15.362500,78.126400
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

What looks like a sink (insurgence), which drains a seasonal stream underground, is indicated on the Survey of India sheet 57-I/03 (edition 1983) next to Boulders (possibly a closed depression) at a location that can be expected to fall on the catchment area of the perennial karst spring rising at the –>Yaganti temple. SITUATION: About 1.5 km in a direct line south-west of the village of Katikavanikunia (note 1) and at about halfway on a line following a 2 km long gap (obviously retracing a NW-SE trending fault) on the Yaganti plateau and heading towards the temple of –>Yaganti at the karst spring (exsurgence) and suspected resurgence (note 2). ETYMOLOGY: The place name -Katikavanikunia- contain the lexem -kava- and appears to mean something -cavish- (note 3).What looks like a sink (insurgence), which drains a seasonal stream underground, is indicated on the Survey of India sheet 57-I/03 (edition 1983) next to Boulders (possibly a closed depression) at a location that can be expected to fall on the catchment area of the perennial karst spring rising at the –>Yaganti temple. SITUATION: About 1.5 km in a direct line south-west of the village of Katikavanikunia (note 1) and at about halfway on a line following a 2 km long gap (obviously retracing a NW-SE trending fault) on the Yaganti plateau and heading towards the temple of –>Yaganti at the karst spring (exsurgence) and suspected resurgence (note 2). ETYMOLOGY: The place name -Katikavanikunia- contain the lexem -kava- and appears to mean something -cavish- (note 3).

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History

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
1.9YAGANTI, 2nd (Cave at)
1.9YAGANTI, 1st (Cave at)
2.0YAGANTI, 3rd (Cave at)
2.1YERRA ZARI GAVI
2.1Ulavalagondi 2 Crevice
2.7MOGASARAYANAGONDI CAVE
2.9YAGANTI SECOND RAVINE CAVE (Foote 1884a: 33)
3.0YERRA ZARI SPRING & CAVE
3.6Ulavalagondi 1 Crevice