Le Gouffre, Natural cove in Reunion Island, France

Le Gouffre, also called Gouffre de L'Étang-Salé, is a long natural rocky corridor on the coastline of L'Étang-Salé in south-western Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean. Waves from the open sea break against it, and crosses and bunches of flowers around the site mark the many suicides that have occurred in this dangerous passage.

Le Gouffre is a natural rock corridor on the coast of L'Étang-Salé, in the southwest of Réunion. The sources do not record a date of formation or any European survey of the site; what is documented is its present form, a rocky channel where waves from the open sea break, and the crosses and bunches of flowers placed around it in memory of the suicides that have occurred there.

Le Gouffre appears in Gérald de Palmas's song "Le Gouffre", the tenth track on his album Marcher dans le sable. Around the rocky corridor, crosses and bunches of flowers placed by families mark the many suicides that have occurred in this dangerous inlet.

Le Gouffre lies on the shoreline of L'Étang-Salé in south-western Réunion, where ocean swell breaks directly inside the rocky corridor. The site is dangerous: crosses and bunches of flowers around the channel mark the many suicides that have occurred there. Keep back from the edge and do not enter the corridor.

The crosses and bunches of flowers around the rocky corridor mark the many suicides that have occurred in this dangerous inlet. The site also appears in the tenth song of Gérald de Palmas's album Marcher dans le sable.