Avenc Ocampo

A 12-metre-deep pit in Camarasa, cleared and enlarged in 2011, with a P.10 and a ramp down to the bottom.

Camarasa • Noguera 23m 12m

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Avenc Ocampo

A 12-metre-deep pit in Camarasa, cleared and enlarged in 2011, with a P.10 and a ramp down to the bottom.

Camarasa · Noguera

Length: 23 m · Depth: 12 m

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A 12-metre-deep pit in Camarasa, cleared and enlarged in 2011, with a P.10 and a ramp down to the bottom.

Characteristics

Type: Pothole
Municipality: Camarasa
Region: Noguera
Unit: Serres marginals - Est
Length: 23 meters
Depth: 12 meters
Major Unit: Prepirineu
Lithology: Limestone
Updated on EspeleoÍndex: July 1, 2016

Location

From Camarasa you must follow the track that climbs to the serra Carbonera and more specifically to the ermita de Sant Jordi. On reaching the flat area where the ermita is, we will take the track on the right until we reach some corrals; just behind these a path starts that in 400 metres places us in a field that some years is cultivated. The path continues crossing the crop field towards the north; at 200 metres and on the left of the path we will find the mouth of the cavity. This was cleared and enlarged in 2011, since previously the mouth was quite narrow.

Entrances

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Ocampo, Avenc
Elevation: 708 m
41.893857, 0.892491
UTM 31T (ETRS89) 325167 4640139
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Topographic

Avenc Ocampo - Topography, Camarasa, Noguera

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Description

Morphology

Cavity formed by a P.10 followed by a short ramp that leads us to the bottom of the cavity. At the end of this ramp there is a small impenetrable shaft through which 1.7 m can be sounded. Halfway down the entrance pit there is an accumulation of blocks that, in the opposite direction to the pit, forms a ramp that reaches the level of -7 m. The whole cavity has a width that does not exceed one metre.

History

In January 1971, while members of GEFOMA were exploring the avenc de Sant Jordi, a work colleague of one of them, totally removed from the speleological world, who had signed up for the trip, went for a walk around the area and located the mouth of the pit. This had been opened by the “caterpillar” machine that was ploughing the land, for the forest repopulation. This person who located the cavity was a native of Galicia and his surname was Ocampo d'Ocampo and for this reason it was agreed to give his first surname as the name of the cavity.

At Easter 1971 GEFOMA returns again and surveys the cavity.

In 2011 the GELL of the CE de Lleida carries out a clearing, enlarging the mouth.

In 2015 the EC Gràcia carries out a new survey.

Bio

Collected by Ramòn Teixidò in March 1971 and identified by Dr. F. Español.

Speneomus (speonomites) nites Jeann. (col. Catopidae Bathyscinae)
Conosomus pubescens Grau (col. Staphylinidae)
Ditomus clypeatus Rossi (col. Harpalidae)
Harpalus honestus Duft. (col. Harpalidae)

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Bibliography

Teixidò, R(1973).- “Avenc Ocampo” GOURS (1):17-19. GEFOMA. Barcelona.

Dades, topografia actualitzada i fotografies, extretes del blog de Jordi de Valles (www.cavitatsde catalunya.blogspot.com.es) post del 7 de novembre de 2015.