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Balma de Penya Roja

Balma de Penya Roja

A visible rock shelter at the Penya Roja, in Cervelló, with two very visible entrances and a low-roofed passage.

Cervelló • Baix Llobregat 5m

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Balma de Penya Roja

A visible rock shelter at the Penya Roja, in Cervelló, with two very visible entrances and a low-roofed passage.

Cervelló · Baix Llobregat

Length: 5 m

Updated record

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Main entrance reference 41.401383, 1.947887 UTM 31 · 412054 4583850
Topographic map of the main entrance
Main entrance · ICGC topographic map

A visible rock shelter at the Penya Roja, in Cervelló, with two very visible entrances and a low-roofed passage.

Characteristics

Location

It is located at the Penya Roja. If we position ourselves in the can Paulet residential development, at the intersection of the streets del Gironès and de l'Anoia, we will find a water tank on the left; from this point, we will follow the street in a Westerly direction for 115 metres and, once there, we will descend in a Southerly direction, as if we were heading towards the avenc de l'Escalfor. Below this and on a small, very visible crag are the entrances of the rock shelter.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Penya Roja, Balma de

    Elevation: 297 m

    41.401383, 1.947887
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 412054 4583850
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Photos

Balma de Penya Roja - Photo, Cervelló, Baix LlobregatView image
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Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Image © its author.

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Description

Morphology

It presents two entrances that are very visible from afar. Entering through the larger entrance, one soon reaches a low-roofed passage that emerges outside 2 m further on. On the small crag, other unimportant concavities can be observed and even some small alveolar forms.

History

Known forever, although it had never come to be catalogued.

Note from Espeleoindex: In an article by Toni Asensio and J. Gallofré (Carbonato nº 4, 1984), a small cave is described which they call Cova de la Penya Roge (sic) that must be in the same area, but both the location and the description are quite ambiguous and there is no survey. This same cave also appears cited as cova de Penya Roja in the Catàleg Espeleològic del Massís de l'Ordal (2004). We do not know whether it could be this one or another nearby one that we have not located.

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Bibliography

  • Totes les dades, topografia i fotografies han estat extretes del web: espeleodijous.cat Post de l'11-5-2021. Dades: Pere Cantons i Jordi Perera

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