Cova de l'àngel

Cave with a 14 m route near the Fontcalda, in Prat de Comte.

Prat de Comte • Terra Alta 14m 4m

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Cova de l'àngel

Cave with a 14 m route near the Fontcalda, in Prat de Comte.

Prat de Comte · Terra Alta

Length: 14 m · Depth: 4 m

Updated record

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Topographic map of the main entrance — Main entrance · ICGC topographic map

Cave with a 14 m route near the Fontcalda, in Prat de Comte.

Characteristics

Type: Cave
Municipality: Prat de Comte
Region: Terra Alta
Unit: Terra Alta, la
Length: 14 meters
Depth: 4 meters
Major Unit: Serralada Prelitoral
Lithology: Limestone
Updated on EspeleoÍndex: November 19, 2015

Location

Near the Fontcalda, in Prat de Comte. From the Fontcalda spa you must follow the Canaletes river downstream. Once you have left behind the spot known as la Peixera, you will see a bridge of the old railway (data 1987). You must pass through the easternmost arch of the bridge and you will find the cave mouth atop a steep slope right next to the same bridge. Approximate coordinates. To be reviewed.

Entrances

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Cova de l' Àngel
Elevation: 190 m
40.999379, 0.427843
UTM 31T (ETRS89) 283665 4541875
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Topographic

Cova de l'àngel - Topography, Prat de Comte, Terra Alta

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Description

Morphology

Formed by a single chamber subdivided by highly decalcified reconstruction processes that come to mask the mouth, giving it the appearance of having several entrances. It has a small lateral crawlway.

Hydrology

Ancient fossil spring seated on a bedding plane.

History

The only data known are those given by the members of the GERP (Sant Just Desvern) who explored and surveyed it in June 1987.

This cave must be the same one that Joan Ferraté (1918) cites, together with the Cova de les Beates, near the Fontcalda; although he cites it as Cova dels Àngels, on the other hand the GERP colleagues call it in the singular and describe another cave, this one indeed in the plural, but in the N sector of the Serra de Pàndols.