
Avenc de la Serp
Left-hand cave in the barranc de Cubars, in Horta de Sant Joan, explored and surveyed by the Espeleo Club Tortosa in 2009.
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Avenc de la Serp
Left-hand cave in the barranc de Cubars, in Horta de Sant Joan, explored and surveyed by the Espeleo Club Tortosa in 2009.
Horta de Sant Joan · Terra Alta
Length: 35 m · Depth: 12 m
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Left-hand cave in the barranc de Cubars, in Horta de Sant Joan, explored and surveyed by the Espeleo Club Tortosa in 2009.
Topographic
Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Image © its author.
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Description
Morphology
It is a fissure opened in the conglomerates of the lower section of the Barranc de Cubars -Les Planes- due to the attraction of the small cliff and masked by years of clearing stones and branches from the almond grove existing there. The fissure is visible or can be guessed at along almost 100 metres from the outside, and lets us enter through two openings 45 metres apart, each with shafts of 5 m., with no interior connection. The maximum depth is reached with a steep slope after the shafts at 12 metres of depth.
History
Explored and surveyed by members of the Espeleo Club Tortosa in 2009. According to what they were told before entering, the name of the hole comes from the hunting of a snake 4.5 metres long and 12 centimetres in diameter that lived there 60 years ago. It was killed by the owner of the estate because it ate the goats' milk. And of course,... if it was so well fed, it surely had daughters and granddaughters that could still live in there.
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Bibliography
- Dades extretes del blog de l'Espeleo Club Tortosa i ampliades per Marcos Carbó
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