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Avenc del Cingle de la Corba

Avenc del Cingle de la Corba

Small pit 15 m deep at Pla de la Corba (Rasos de Peguera), with an entrance half blocked by boulders and an elongated little chamber 7 m long.

Castellar del Riu • Berguedà 28m 15m

Small pit 15 m deep at Pla de la Corba (Rasos de Peguera), with an entrance half blocked by boulders and an elongated little chamber 7 m long.

Characteristics

Location

From the city of Berga we will take the BV-4243 road towards the Rasos de Peguera ski resort; on reaching kilometre 9.14 and at a right-hand bend, we will take a track on the left of the road that is closed with a chain. Shortly after starting along it, the track descends slightly and then levels out. We are at Pla de la Corba and, when the track begins to descend very gently and turns a little to the left (the ruins of the house of la Corba can be seen), about 2 metres to the right of the track and inside a small depression is the pit.

At present (February 2024), the fall of a tree from the upper area of the cave entrance has at the same time caused a rock to fall, which leaves the access to the cave still a little narrower.

Map

Entrances

Always verify coordinates and access conditions before setting out.

  1. Avenc del Cingle de la Corba

    Elevation: 1591 m

    42.124948, 1.749909
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 396672 4664405
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

The entrance, half blocked by boulders, gives way to a short step down that places us in a small elongated chamber 7 metres long; at its end and among the boulders an impenetrable fissure can be seen that connects with the outside. At the foot of the entrance step there is a small shaft that connects with the final gallery, with a sloping floor and full of debris, and which at its lowest point closes the cave.

History

On 18 and 19 July 1959, three members of the ERE-CEC (Molist, Garcia and Pomerol) explore two caves at the Rasos de Peguera: Avenc del Pla de la Corba (-51 m) and the Avenc del Cingle de la Corba (-26 m). The first is undoubtedly a partial exploration of what we now know as Bòfia de la Corba and the other should be what was later called Avenc del Sixto (although with an exaggerated depth). We think, however, that there is a slip here, since by the logic of the location, the first should be that of the Cingle de la Corba and the other that of the Pla de la Corba. These explorations go completely unnoticed and have no kind of dissemination.

In 1966 the members of the SECEM (Manresa) locate them again without any knowledge of the previous explorations and name it Avenc del Sixto. When in 1980 volume 5 of the Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya is put together, the authors decide to give it back its older name, although by logic it should be that of the Pla de la Corba.

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Bibliography

  1. Borràs,J; Miñarro,J.M; Talavera,F.(1980).-”l'Urgell, el Solsonès, la Segarra i el Berguedà”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol. 5): 1-233. Ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
  2. Valles, Jordi de (2009).-”Berguedà, Cerdanya, Garrotxa i Ripollès”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol.3):1-381. EC Gràcia/FCE.
  • Dades i fotografies aportades per Juli Serrano (SIE-CEA) i Francesc Rubinat (ERE-CEC). Febrer de 2024.


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