Baatara Pothole - Lebanese Americans

About Baatara Pothole

The Baatara gorge sinkhole is a waterfall in the Chatine, Lebanon near Balaa. The waterfall drops 255 metres into the Balaa Pothole, a cave of Jurassic limestone located on the Lebanon Mountain Trail. The cave is also known as the Cave of the Three Bridges.

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Discovered in 1952 by French bio speologist Henri Coiffait, the waterfall & accompanying sinkhole were fully mapped in the 1980s by the Speleo Club Liban. It is also known as the “Cave of the Three Bridges.”

During the spring melt, a 95-metre cascade falls into the Baatara Pothole, a cave of Jurassic limestone.