Baatara Gorge Waterfall
Executive summary by darmansjah
The waterfall drops 255 metres (837 ft) into the Baatara
Pothole, a cave of Jurassic limestone located on the Lebanon Mountain Trail.
Discovered in 1952 by French bio-speleologist Henri
Coiffait, the waterfall and accompanying sinkhole were fully mapped in the
1980s by the Spéléo club du Liban. The cave is also known as the "Cave of
the Three Bridges." Traveling from Laklouk to Tannourine one passes the
village of Balaa, and the "Three Bridges Chasm" (in French
"Gouffre des Trois Ponts") is a five-minute journey into the valley
below where one sees three natural bridges, rising one above the other and
overhanging a chasm descending into Mount Lebanon.
During the spring melt, a
90–100-metre (300–330 ft) cascade falls behind the three bridges and then down
into the 250-metre (820 ft) chasm. A 1988 fluorescent dye test demonstrated
that the water emerged at the spring of Dalleh in Mgharet al-Ghaouaghir
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