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Bufador Nº5 de Beví

Small cavity 9 metres deep in Santa Maria de Besora, with a narrow entrance passage leading to an elongated descending chamber.

Santa Maria de Besora • Osona 15m 9m

Small cavity 9 metres deep in Santa Maria de Besora, with a narrow entrance passage leading to an elongated descending chamber.

Characteristics

Location

From the C17 road towards Puigcerdà we will enter the village of Sant Quirze de Besora at the traffic-light junction. We must cross over the bridge over the river Ter and at the end of the bridge, turn left onto the BV5227 road. We will cross the railway line and continue for about 7 kms., until we reach Santa Maria de Besora. Almost at the end of the straight that crosses the village, we will find on the left the sign indicating "to Ripoll via Llaés". We must take this narrow cemented track which is in good enough condition to be driven with a car. You must be alert as the bends are very tight and we constantly find steep ups and downs. After travelling 3.5 kms. we will reach the coll de Beví; before reaching the coll we will find a track on the left, we must follow it, leaving on the left the turn-offs of the Beví Gros and further on that of the Beví Xic; further on the track turns towards the N, on this stretch we will find signs that will lead us to the entrance of the great fissure where the bufadors are located.

Just entering the fissure and on its right-hand side, in front of some large blocks there is a small channel parallel to the fissure itself, in the very middle of which the mouth opens.

Approximate coordinates.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Beví, Bufador Nº5 de

    Elevation: 907 m

    42.138494, 2.234953
    UTM 31T (ED 50) 436871 4665640
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Description

Morphology

The narrow entrance passage leads to the dome of an elongated chamber which descends at both its ends, reaching its maximum depth at -9 metres.

Progression

Due to the extreme narrowness of the cavity, it has only been explored once; as no surveying equipment was available, only a sketch was made.

History

The first records of visits to one of the cavities located inside this great fissure correspond to Dr. Francesc Español, carried out in 1934 for biospeleological purposes.

In 1965 the Grup Espeleològic Terra i Mar (GETIM) of Sabadell explored the avenc dels Tigres (pit of the Tigres); the avenc del TIM (pit of the TIM), the avenc Besora (pit of Besora) and the avenc del Vent (pit of the Vent).

Later the ERE of the CEC between the years 1977 and 1980 carried out a meticulous inventory of the cavities located in this fissure which would be published in the magazine Espeleòleg no. 34-35.

During 1979 the Centre Espeleològic Cervelló carried out the exploration of various cavities of this fissure, with the aim that they be published in the Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (Borràs-Miñarro-Talavera); this led to giving a new denomination to some cavities.

We, the EspeleoÍndex team, have considered it more appropriate to use the denomination of the cavities made by the members of the ERE-CEC, since it is a more complete joint work. This same line regarding denomination has been used by Jordi de Valles in the Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (4).

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Bibliography

  1. Borràs,J; Miñarro,J.M; Talavera,F.(1980).-”el ripollès la garrotxa i l'alt empordà”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol4):1-296. Ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
  2. Escolà Boada,Oleguer; Inglès Alcon, Antoni; Martinez Rius, Albert.(1983).-”Bufadors de Babí”. Espèleòleg (34-35):223-243. ERE-CE Catalunya.
  3. GE Terra i Mar.(1968).-”Grup d'espeleologia Terra i Mar -Sabadell-” Espeleòleg (7):239-241. ERE.CE Catalunya.
  4. Valles, Jordi de.(2010).-”Alt Empordà, Baix Empordà, Gironès, Osona, Pla de l'Estany, Selva”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (4):1-397. EC Gràcia – FCE.

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