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Cova de Sant Pau

A 19-metre-long cave in Sant Pau d'Ordal (Subirats), rectilinear with a low ceiling, formed along a bedding plane.

Subirats • Alt Penedès 19m 1m

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Cova de Sant Pau

A 19-metre-long cave in Sant Pau d'Ordal (Subirats), rectilinear with a low ceiling, formed along a bedding plane.

Subirats · Alt Penedès

Length: 19 m · Depth: 1 m

Updated record

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Main entrance reference 41.389202, 1.802101 UTM 31 · 399943 4582860
Topographic map of the main entrance
Main entrance · ICGC topographic map

A 19-metre-long cave in Sant Pau d'Ordal (Subirats), rectilinear with a low ceiling, formed along a bedding plane.

Characteristics

Location

In the municipality of Subirats, from the N-340 road, on reaching this village take the first street on the right (carrer de Can Rosell); at the end of it, where the houses end, continue to the right; after about 40 metres keep to the track on the left; after 70 metres you reach an esplanade from which several tracks lead off; take the one on the right that heads towards can Mata del Racó; on the hill immediately above the house there is a fault that brings the limestone into contact with the underlying marls; the throw of this fault is about 10 metres; on the upper fault block is the cave entrance, hidden by a fig tree that has grown from about 2 metres inside the cave.

Coordinates of doubtful reliability.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Sant Pau, Cova de

    Elevation: 340 m

    41.389202, 1.802101
    UTM 31T (ED 50) 399943 4582860
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Description

Morphology

It is a rectilinear cave 19.5 metres long with a low ceiling; it is formed along a bedding plane, and at 3.50 and 7.50 metres from the entrance there are three small conduits filled with sediment.

History

The first exploration of which there is a record was carried out by members of the now-defunct SIRE of the Unió Excursionista de Catalunya (Horta), on 18 July 1969.

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Bibliography

  1. Lagar, A.; Salvadó, M.; Soriano, J.(1975).-”Cavidades del Penedès (8ª nota). Sant Pau d'Ordal” Senderos (195):26-30. UEC. Barcelona.
  2. Rubinat Aumedes, Francesc.(1984).-”Catàleg Espeleològic del Massís de Garraf. Unitat Septentrional. Sectors 09-11-13-14”. Gours (10):19-73. Foment Martinenc. Barcelona.

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