# Gourgouthakas

- **Country:** Greece
- **Depth:** 1129 m
- **Location:** Greece
- **Discovery:** 1990
- **Entrance Count:** 1

Gourgouthakas (; from "small cutting on rocks, in which rain water is collected and from which animals drink water") is a cave located in the Lefka Ori mountains on the Greek island of Crete. Until resurveying in 2022, it was considered the deepest cave in Greece, with an explored depth of , and was the 43rd deepest in the world in 2010. Following the re-survey conducted by the Gourgouthakas expedition of 2022, the depth has been re-evaluated at . A dive of the terminal siphon in 2025 allowed reaching a depth of for 80 meters in length.

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gourgouthakas (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)