Avenc de les Perles
A 48-metre-deep pit on the Turó de la Miloquera, Marçà, explored and surveyed by the Espeleo Club de Gràcia in 1979.
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Avenc de les Perles
A 48-metre-deep pit on the Turó de la Miloquera, Marçà, explored and surveyed by the Espeleo Club de Gràcia in 1979.
Marçà · Priorat
Length: 188 m · Depth: 48 m
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A 48-metre-deep pit on the Turó de la Miloquera, Marçà, explored and surveyed by the Espeleo Club de Gràcia in 1979.
Topographic
Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Image © its author.
Description
Morphology
The 2x1 metre entrance comfortably places us at the base of the first -17 metre pit, where we find a fissure. Following it eastwards, before reaching the end of the gallery, which ends in a narrow passage through which the outside can be seen, we will find a pit of about -15 metres that places us at the base of a fairly narrow fissure running SW-NE. Following it NE, it maintains a height of about 10 metres, ending a few metres further on; following it SW, the fissure descends on a slope of stones while winding in the same direction until reaching the -36 metre level, where it ends; the total length of the fissure is 42 metres. Returning to the base of the entrance pit, if we head SW, a steep 30º slope takes us to the only chamber in the cavity, formed from a widening of the fissure; the ramp continues with a steeper incline until reaching a new pit, which places us at -42 metres. We continue along the gallery for about 30 metres, until after a crawl the passage becomes completely impassable at -48 metres, this being the deepest point of the cavity.
History
We do not know who the first explorers were, but the first documented mention we have reference to is that of the Espeleo Club de Gràcia, who explored and surveyed it in 1979.
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Bibliography
- Borrás, J.;Miñarro, JM.;Talavera, F.(1984).-”el baix camp, el priorat i la ribera d'ebre”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol. 7):1-283. Ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
- Ferreres i Gabarda, Jaume; Cardona Oliván, Ferran; Delgado i Alberich, Xavier; Garcia i Arroyo, Josep.(1982).-”Les cavitats del Turó de la Miloquera. Marçà (Priorat)”. Exploracions (6):19-31. EC Gràcia. Barcelona.
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