
Avenc M-35
A 68-metre-deep pothole in Montcortès, in the Baix Pallars. Cave known since 1981 and surveyed on 30 October 1988.
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Avenc M-35
A 68-metre-deep pothole in Montcortès, in the Baix Pallars. Cave known since 1981 and surveyed on 30 October 1988.
Baix Pallars · Pallars Sobirà
Length: 160 m · Depth: 68 m
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A 68-metre-deep pothole in Montcortès, in the Baix Pallars. Cave known since 1981 and surveyed on 30 October 1988.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
A couple of drops bring us into a small chamber; through a fissure we reach the head of the small shaft that leaves us in a gallery. To the south-east of this gallery, descending down a ramp with stone blocks, better secured with a rope, we reach the Sala Gran, the only part of the cave that can be called beautiful, since it is a high-roofed chamber with formations. From this chamber we can descend among blocks and stones in a very precarious state to the deepest zones of the cave.
Speleothems
The Sala Gran is a high-roofed chamber with formations.
Hydrology
To the right of the track there is a large temporary pool of water used by animals for drinking.
Progression
To explore the cave no rigging of equipment is necessary. While the survey was being made it was necessary to dig open some sections, such as the gatonera hiperestreta, as well as point (F) and point (D). The exploration is done among unstable blocks.
History
On 26 to 30 March 1970 a team from the SIE of the CEA explores the Forat de Montcortès (98 metres) and the Forat del Vicenç (-10 metres). Later, on 6 and 7 March 1976, another SIE team in which some of the members of the previous team take part, explore in the serra de Peracalç, between the estany de Montcortès and Peracalç, three caves of (-30 metres, -11 metres and -7 metres) depth respectively, which they name Forats de la Grata no. 1, 2 and 3; this information remains in the SIE archives but nothing about it is ever published. Very probably they correspond to one of the many holes explored by the GEB in this sector.
In 1980 the GEB begins a series of explorations on this flat area that lies to the N of the roca de Perauba and to the W of the dolmen de Perauba and which the GEB calls pla del campament because it is the spot where they set up camp during the explorations; these would last until 1988. Later they return in September 1994, in July 1995, when they accompany the archaeologists from the department of history of pre-capitalist societies and social anthropology of the UAB, and they return again in November 1999. Over the course of these years, the forest mass has grown considerably, which also complicates the location of the caves.
The cave was known since 1981 but it is not surveyed until 30 October 1988.
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Bibliography
- Porcel Caro,Enric.(1990).-”Exploracions a la Serra Magdalena ”.Cavernas (22):49-57. GE Badalona.
- Porcel Caro,Enric; Miret Pérez, Francesc.(2008).-”Cavernes d'interès arqueològic”. Cavernas (27):58-63. GE Badalona.
- Navarro,J.(1971).-”Relación cronológica de las exploraciones realizadas por miembros de la SIE en 1970”. EspeleoSie (10):75-87. SIE – CE Àliga. Barcelona.
- De Valles, Jordi.(2008).-Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (Vol 1):249. ECG, FCE. Badalona.
- Fitxa actualitzada el novembre de 2017, coordenades, fotografies i dades facilitades per Enric Peradalta Rocha (GIRES).
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