
Cova de Fontanil
A cave with 59 metres of passage at les Planes d'Hostoles, with an entrance hall, galleries and stalagmitic flows.
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Cova de Fontanil
A cave with 59 metres of passage at les Planes d'Hostoles, with an entrance hall, galleries and stalagmitic flows.
Planes d'Hostoles, Les · Garrotxa
Length: 59 m · Depth: 15 m
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A cave with 59 metres of passage at les Planes d'Hostoles, with an entrance hall, galleries and stalagmitic flows.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
The cavity presents an entrance hall of 10X4 metres, and about 3 metres in height, which presents four exits to the outside. On its N side, the small entrances of an inner chamber open, totally covered by stalagmitic flows and also connected with the gallery joining it to the second part of the cave. This gallery, 7 metres in length, presents a very picturesque configuration, since it is a passage between large flows of more than 6 metres in height, and an indeterminate thickness; once on the other side, one reaches the start of another new gallery of 15 metres in length towards the N, presenting three exits to the outside. At its beginning a small inner chamber of 9 metres opens, and between the large flows, a new passage which after descending 5 metres, comes out again to the outside, at the level of the river.
Speleothems
The inner chamber is totally covered by stalagmitic flows. The gallery 7 metres in length is a passage between large flows of more than 6 metres in height, and an indeterminate thickness.
History
Known since time immemorial, they are already cited by Font i Sagué in 1897.
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Bibliography
- Borrás, J.; Miñarro, J.M.; Talavera, F.(1980).-”el ripollès, la garrotxai l'alt empordà”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol.4):212-213. Edit. Políglota. Barcelona.
- Font i Sagué, Norbert.(1987).-”Catàlech Espeleològich de Catalunya” Butlletí Cent. Exc. Catalunya (26 ):107-112 CE Catalunya. Barcelona.
- Coordenades i fotografies extretes del blog de Martin Rubio (caminos-y-caminatas.blogspot.com.es).
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