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Cova del Xiquillo

Cova del Xiquillo

A 60-metre-long cave in the Vall d'en Bas, explored in 1970 by the GIE del CE Gràcia.

Vall d'en Bas, La • Garrotxa 60m 10m

A 60-metre-long cave in the Vall d'en Bas, explored in 1970 by the GIE del CE Gràcia.

Characteristics

Location

From the mas del Xiquillo, one must climb back up the serrat de la Badia; before reaching the cingle de Mas Roig, one must head E for about 80 metres, where we will find the cavity.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Cova del Xiquillo

    Elevation: 640 m

    42.126074, 2.467833
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 456014 4663911
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Description

Morphology

Through an entrance gallery full of large blocks, one descends slightly; little by little it narrows and at 15 metres of passage, through an adjacent gallery and in an ascending direction, one enters a very wide chamber but with a very low ceiling, with a series of elongated but shallow cracks located at the level of the walls. At the edge of the small access gallery to this chamber there is another conduit in an E direction, which a few metres further on meets another parallel gallery; together with a small branch at a lower level they constitute the final part of the cavity.

History

The only known data are from the exploration carried out in 1970 by members of the GIE del CE Gràcia.

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Bibliography

Borràs, J.; Miñarro, J.M.; Talavera, F. (1980).-'el Ripollès, la Garrotxa i l'Alt Empordà'. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol.4):1-296. Ed Políglota. Barcelona.



Valles, Jordi de (2009).-'Berguedà, Cerdanya, Garrotxa, Ripollès'. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol.3):1-381. Espeleo Club Gràcia / Federació Catalana Espeleologia



Coordenades i fotografia facilitades per David Bros, març de 2026.

Source: Espeleoindex (espeleoindex.com), modified. CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/