Central Europe
Slovenia
Municipality of Miren-Kostanjevica

Sinkhole

A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as , swallow hole or swallet.
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  • Type: Meadow
  • Description: geologically-formed topological depression
  • Also known as: “shakehole”, “sink”, “sink hole”, “sink-hole”, “sinkhole”, “swallet”, and “swallow hole”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cerje and Fajtji hrib.

Peak
Photo: BojanM79, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a peak.

Peak
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is a peak.

Cave
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is a Karst in the village of San Michele del Carso in the municipality of . The cave is not open to public, and the access is managed by Talpe del Carso/Kraški Krti speleological group, headquartered in the vicinity of the entrance. is situated 4 km northwest of Sinkhole.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lokvica and Vrtoče.

Hamlet
is a settlement in the in the Littoral region of next to the border with .

Hamlet
is a dispersed settlement south of in the in the Littoral region of .

Village
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is a settlement next to in the in the Littoral region of . The local church is dedicated to Saint Augustine and belongs to the Parish of Miren. is situated 2½ km north of Sinkhole.

Sinkhole

Latitude
45.86632° or 45° 51′ 59″ north
Longitude
13.6114° or 13° 36′ 41″ east
Open location code
8FQMVJ86+GH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 391725919
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­meadow
Wiki­data ID
Q188734
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Sinkhole” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بالوعة”
  • Aragonese: “Dolina”
  • Armenian: “կարստային ջրափոս”
  • Basque: “Dolina”
  • Belarusian: “карст”
  • Bengali: “ধস-গহ্বর”
  • Bosnian: “Vrtača”
  • Bulgarian: “карстова дупка”
  • Bulgarian: “Карстова фуния”
  • Catalan: “bòfia”
  • Catalan: “dolina”
  • Catalan: “Dolina”
  • Chinese: “地陷”
  • Chinese: “地面塌陷”
  • Chinese: “天坑”
  • Chinese: “沉洞”
  • Chinese: “滲穴”
  • Chinese: “落水洞”
  • Croatian: “do”
  • Croatian: “dolac”
  • Croatian: “ponikva”
  • Croatian: “Ponikva”
  • Croatian: “vrtača”
  • Czech: “závrt”
  • Czech: “Závrt”
  • Danish: “jordfaldshul”
  • Danish: “Jordfaldshul”
  • Danish: “Undersøisk jordfaldshul”
  • Dutch: “doline”
  • Dutch: “Doline”
  • Esperanto: “dolino”
  • Esperanto: “Dolino”
  • Estonian: “karstilehter”
  • Estonian: “Karstilehter”
  • Estonian: “kurisu”
  • Finnish: “doliini”
  • Finnish: “Doliini”
  • French: “doline”
  • French: “Doline”
  • French: “emposieu”
  • French: “sotch”
  • Georgian: “კარსტული ძაბრი”
  • German: “Doline”
  • German: “Karsttrichter”
  • German: “Sinkhöhle”
  • German: “Sinkloch”
  • Greek: “δολίνη”
  • Greek: “Δολίνη”
  • Guarani: “Yvykua”
  • Haitian: “Dolin”
  • Hebrew: “בולען”
  • Hebrew: “דולינה”
  • Hindi: “घोल रन्ध्र”
  • Hungarian: “víznyelő”
  • Hungarian: “Víznyelő”
  • Indonesian: “amblasan”
  • Indonesian: “Amblasan”
  • Indonesian: “dolin”
  • Indonesian: “dolina”
  • Indonesian: “lubang amblas”
  • Indonesian: “lubang runtuhan”
  • Indonesian: “sinkhole”
  • Italian: “dolina carsica”
  • Italian: “Dolina carsica”
  • Italian: “dolina”
  • Italian: “sinkhole”
  • Italian: “uvala”
  • Japanese: “シンクホール”
  • Japanese: “ドリーネ”
  • Japanese: “石灰洞窟”
  • Japanese: “陥落孔”
  • Kazakh: “Karst voronkası”
  • Kazakh: “Карст воронкасы”
  • Kazakh: “كارست ۆورونكاسى”
  • Korean: “돌리네”
  • Korean: “땅꺼짐”
  • Korean: “싱크홀”
  • Korean: “용식함지”
  • Latvian: “karsta kritene”
  • Latvian: “Karsta kritene”
  • Limburgan: “Doline”
  • Lithuanian: “Smegduobė”
  • Macedonian: “вртача”
  • Macedonian: “Вртача”
  • Malay: “Lubang benam”
  • Marathi: “विलयछिद्र”
  • Nepali: “भ्वाङ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “synkehull”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “slukhol”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Slukhol”
  • Norwegian: “Synkehull”
  • Persian: “فروچاله”
  • Persian: “گودال”
  • Polish: “lej krasowy”
  • Polish: “Lej krasowy”
  • Polish: “lejek krasowy”
  • Polish: “werteb krasowy”
  • Polish: “wertep krasowy”
  • Portuguese: “cenote”
  • Portuguese: “dolina”
  • Portuguese: “Dolina”
  • Romanian: “dolină”
  • Romanian: “Dolină”
  • Russian: “карстовая воронка”
  • Russian: “Карстовая воронка”
  • Russian: “карстовые воронки”
  • Russian: “усадочная раковина”
  • Serbian: “Vrtača”
  • Serbian: “вртача”
  • Serbian: “Вртача”
  • Serbian: “Вртаче”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vrtača”
  • Slovak: “Krasová jama”
  • Slovak: “Závrt”
  • Slovenian: “kraška kotanja”
  • Slovenian: “vrtača”
  • Slovenian: “Vrtača”
  • Somali: “Uub”
  • Spanish: “dolina”
  • Spanish: “Dolina”
  • Spanish: “Torca”
  • Swedish: “Dolin”
  • Swedish: “Sjunkhål”
  • Swedish: “slukhål”
  • Swedish: “Slukhål”
  • Tamil: “புதைகுழி”
  • Thai: “Sinkhole”
  • Thai: “หลุมยุบ”
  • Turkish: “çukur”
  • Turkish: “obruk”
  • Turkish: “Obruk”
  • Ukrainian: “Карстова лійка”
  • Ukrainian: “понор”
  • Urdu: “گڑھا”
  • Vietnamese: “Hố địa ngục”
  • Vietnamese: “Hố sụt”
  • Vietnamese: “Hố tử thần”
  • Welsh: “llyncdwll”
  • Welsh: “Llyncdwll”
  • Welsh: “sudd-dwll”

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