Kaftar Khana

(ولسوالی سالنگ - AF)
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Location

Near –>Ab Bar Amada, on the left bank of the Salang river valley, and a few metres above the road near kilometre stone 102.5 on the road from Kabul to Mazar-i Sharif. BTH - 14/07/2024

Description

Various descriptions
Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An obvious entrance (12 m wide, 8 m high), well known to local people (SPELEOLOGIE AFGHANE 1975: 12, cave plan on page 13)). ETYMOLOGY: The Pashtu (?) -kaftar- signifies pigeon/s and -kna- means house, home. SPELEOLOGIEAFGHANE (1975), however, translates Ghar Kaftar Khana into the French -Grotte du Pigeonnier- (Pigeoner's Cave). CAVE LIFE: Pigeons (SPELEOLOGIE AFGHANE 1975: 12).

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018

Spéléologie Afghane 1975.

Histoire

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1975 August: Claude Chabert and Nicole Bouillier mapped (SPELEOLOGIE AFGHANE 1975: 12) Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Cavités proche

Distance (km)	Nom	Longueur (m)	Profondeur (m)
0.0	Ab Bar Amara (Ghar)
0.6	P. K. 103.2, Salang (Grotte du)
0.6	P. K. 102.1, Salang (Grotte du) [doublon possible de #62052, à fusionner]
0.6	Canyon 1, Salang (Grotte du)
0.6	Canyon 2, Salang (Grotte du)
0.6	Canyon 3, Salang (Grotte du)
0.6	Salang (Grotte-résurgence de la)
0.6	Jon (Ghar i)
0.6	HOTEL, Salang (Grotte de la)