Propantes
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Propantes is a pothole on the mountain of Parnon within the borders of the Paliochori community of the Municipality of Leonidio in Greece. The entrance is about three by seven meters wide. The entrance shaft drops to -285m without the need for a re-belay, making it the deepest daylight shaft in Greece. The depth of the pothole has been surveyed to -315m following exploration carried out by SELAS caving club of Greece, which followed leads in the form of windows coming off the main shaft. The pothole appears on many on-line deep cave lists (usually something reserved for caves deeper than -400m) as it had originally been erroneously reported as being deeper than the 400m required to be published in these lists.
Exploration is ongoing.
The pothole has been known since antiquity and was used during the second world war and subsequent civil war in Greece as a convenient place of execution.
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