Avenc del Coll de Jouet
A pit with two entrances and a depth of 11 metres at Coll de Jou (Guixers), known since time immemorial and surveyed by J. Subils between 4 and 6 January 1964.
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Avenc del Coll de Jouet
A pit with two entrances and a depth of 11 metres at Coll de Jou (Guixers), known since time immemorial and surveyed by J. Subils between 4 and 6 January 1964.
Guixers · Solsonès
Length: 50 m · Depth: 11 m
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A pit with two entrances and a depth of 11 metres at Coll de Jou (Guixers), known since time immemorial and surveyed by J. Subils between 4 and 6 January 1964.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
The entrance of the avenc del Coll de Jouet opens two metres above the base of the S face of the cliff; this leads to a 4-metre pit, continuing down a steep slope with a somewhat narrow passage, at the end of which there is a small ladder by which we reach a chamber.
Progression
In this chamber there was formerly a ladder that allowed one to climb up to the cova dels Contrabandistes; nowadays, to make the through trip of the cavity, a rope must first be rigged at the end of the artificial passage of the cova dels Contrabandistes.
History
Known in the area since time immemorial and used as a hiding place, it was fitted out for living in. It seems it was used as a house by the prisoners who were forced to work on the Coll de Jou to Cambrils road after the civil war.
J. Subils explored and surveyed it between 4 and 6 January 1964; curiously he makes no reference to the final chamber or to the access via the cave, popularly known as dels Contrabandistes, and this part of the cavity does not appear on Subils's survey either.
In 1980 members of the Centre Excursionista Solsonès explored and surveyed it in its entirety.
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Bibliography
- 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.
- Codina,S.(1983).- “Avenc del Coll de Jouet i Avenc del Capolatell”. Corriol (60) CE Solsonès.
- Subils, J.; Senent, J.; Escolà,O.(1964).-”Operació Solsonès”. Montaña (90):47-55. CE Catalunya.
- Ubach, Montserrat; Escolà, Oleguer.(1968).-”Operació Solsonès – campanyes 1962 a 1965 (primera etapa). Espeleòleg (5):158-162. ERE-Centre Excursionista de Catalunya.
- Valles, Jordi de (2009).-”Alt Urgell, Noguera, Pla d'Urgell, Segarra, Solsonès, Urgell) Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (2):1-384. EC Gràcia-FCE.
- Coordenades, fotografies i dades facilitades per Juli Serrano i Montse Roca (SIE-CEA) juliol de 2022.
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