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Balma de Sant Pau

Balma de Sant Pau

An insignificant shelter on the old path from Queralbs to Núria, a meagre refuge a little over 3 metres deep with a stone bench.

Queralbs • Ripollès 3m

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Balma de Sant Pau

An insignificant shelter on the old path from Queralbs to Núria, a meagre refuge a little over 3 metres deep with a stone bench.

Queralbs · Ripollès

Length: 3 m

Updated record

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Main entrance reference 42.365437, 2.167687 UTM 31 · 431465 4690687
Topographic map of the main entrance
Main entrance · ICGC topographic map

An insignificant shelter on the old path from Queralbs to Núria, a meagre refuge a little over 3 metres deep with a stone bench.

Characteristics

Location

On the way up, on the left-hand side of the old path from Queralbs to Núria, where it passes above the Navarro tunnel.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Sant Pau, Balma de

    Elevation: 1460 m

    42.365437, 2.167687
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 431465 4690687
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

It is a meagre refuge a little over 3 metres deep with a stone bench. It is set in Cambro-Ordovician gneiss.

History

Known since time immemorial.

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Bibliography

  1. Aymamí, Gener (2002).- “Les coves de Núria”. IX Jornades de Literatura Excursionista: 141-150. Unió Excursionista de Catalunya. Barcelona.
  1. Valles, J. de (2009).- Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya. Vol. 3: 381 pp. Espeleo Club de Gràcia / Federació Catalana d'Espeleologia. Barcelona.
  • Fotografia extreta de: wikiloc

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