Cova del Mill

Cova penjada (hanging cave) on the cliff above the Canelles reservoir in Corçà (Àger), with an entrance of about 3x2 metres and a gallery of about twenty metres.

Àger • Noguera 20m

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Cova del Mill

Cova penjada (hanging cave) on the cliff above the Canelles reservoir in Corçà (Àger), with an entrance of about 3x2 metres and a gallery of about twenty metres.

Àger · Noguera

Length: 20 m

Updated record

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

Cova penjada (hanging cave) on the cliff above the Canelles reservoir in Corçà (Àger), with an entrance of about 3x2 metres and a gallery of about twenty metres.

Characteristics

Type: Cave
Municipality: Àger
Region: Noguera
Unit: Montsec d'Ares
Length: 20 meters
Depth: 0 meters
Major Unit: Prepirineu
Lithology: Limestone
Updated on EspeleoÍndex: January 6, 2023

Location

Access is from Corçà, leaving the car park located before reaching the ermita de la Pertusa. Follow the Mont-rebei path and once past the mas de la Pardina, at the height of the Cleda del Feixà leave the path to the left and cross country along the Serradet del Mill until reaching the height of the cave, which hangs below the cliff; a rappel must be rigged to descend to the cave.

The coordinates are approximate and not very reliable.

Entrances

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Cova del Mill
Elevation: 583 m
42.059358, 0.672966
UTM 31T (ETRS89) 307454 4658986
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Description

Morphology

The entrance of about 3x2 metres opens in the very middle of a cliff; inside there is a wide and high gallery about twenty metres long, which as one goes in decreases in size until it becomes impassable.

No survey is available.

Progression

A rappel must be rigged to descend to the cave.

History

In May 2015 Antoni Satorra, while on a kayak trip on the Canelles reservoir in the Mont-rebei area, observed what appeared to be the entrance of a cave in a cliff, located below the path of the Pertusa to the mas de Carlets. In September 2016, together with Josep Mª Molgó (Soci), they located the cave and rigged a rappel on the cliff down to the cave. In 2018 they got in contact with Espeleoíndex to find out whether we had any information about this cavity, which turned out to be unpublished. It was left to go during 2019 to do the survey, but the death of Antoni Satorra in July 2019 paralysed everything.

Once Covid-19 had passed, in the summer of 2022 we got in contact again with Josep Mª Molgó to go and survey the cavity; we arranged for after the end of the year, when one of those who had to go had recovered from an operation; unfortunately “el Soci” passed away on 14 December 2022.

We have thought it appropriate to include the record of the cavity in Espeleoíndex so that its exploration is on record, and if anyone finds it again they can expand the information about it.