Cova del Puig

Petita cambra subterrània al peu del Puig (Ulldecona)

Ulldecona • Montsià18m5m

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Cova del Puig

Petita cambra subterrània al peu del Puig (Ulldecona)

Ulldecona · Montsià

Length: 18 m · Depth: 5 m

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Small underground chamber at the foot of the Puig, in Ulldecona, with a hall 5 metres below the entrance and an open-air gallery leading to a lime kiln.

Characteristics

Type: Cave
Municipality: Ulldecona
Region: Montsià
Unit: Montsià, el - Godall
Length: 18 meters
Depth: 5 meters
Major Unit: Serralada Prelitoral
Lithology: Limestone
Last review: 2016-03-15

Location

To the S of Ulldecona is the so-called Puig del Calvari. The cavity is found on one of its slopes, which cannot be pinpointed exactly, and beside some country houses and corrals. The coordinates are without any precision and the situation is to be reviewed.

Entrances

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Cova del Puig
Elevation: 142 m
40.589930, 0.447341
UTM 31T (ETRS89) 283981 4496369
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Topographic

Cova del Puig - Topography, Ulldecona, Montsià

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Description

Morphology

The cavity currently presents an underground hall located 5 metres below the entrance level. The hall is about 10 metres in diameter and has been paved and covered to be used as a store. There are some stairs to go down into it.

Progression

From the hall it continues through an open-air gallery to a lime kiln. Formerly, according to its former owner and author of the works, and as Font i Sagué also records in his 1897 catalogue, some galleries came out of this hall; one of them, after a shaft, communicated with a lower gallery of about 300 metres in length, which they say was blocked by a collapse at this point located below the railway line.

Other details

The current state of the cavity is unknown.

History

First cited by N. Font i Sagué in his Catàlech (1897), giving the data he collected from the interrogation made a year earlier by the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. The informant already cites a hall with a series of galleries coming out of it. Towards the end of the 1970's, J. Borràs was able to locate and visit the cavity, which had already been transformed into a kind of store.