Cova dels Prats

Curious cave with a 118 m route at the Port (Roquetes), with an entrance gallery, a two-level chamber, a narrow gallery and a temporary watercourse.

Roquetes • Baix Ebre 118m 13m

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Cova dels Prats

Curious cave with a 118 m route at the Port (Roquetes), with an entrance gallery, a two-level chamber, a narrow gallery and a temporary watercourse.

Roquetes · Baix Ebre

Length: 118 m · Depth: 13 m

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Curious cave with a 118 m route at the Port (Roquetes), with an entrance gallery, a two-level chamber, a narrow gallery and a temporary watercourse.

Characteristics

Type: Cave
Municipality: Roquetes
Region: Baix Ebre
Unit: Port, el
Length: 118 meters
Depth: 13 meters
Major Unit: Serralada Prelitoral
Lithology: Limestone
Updated on EspeleoÍndex: November 17, 2012

Location

Leaving Mas de Barberans towards la Sénia along the TV-3421 road, after about 3 kilometres (shortly before the km. 12 marker) the forest track branches off to the right which, climbing up the barranc de la Galera, goes up to the Casetes Velles – Refugi del Mas del Frare (halfway along, the municipality and the comarca change). The track continues a little further and before its end there is a path that leads to the Masos de Caguitos and continues eastwards, running along the edge of the Serrassoles ridge, with the cave found almost at its upper area.

Entrances

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Cova dels Prats
Elevation: 1293 m
40.771840, 0.282220
UTM 31T (ED 50) 270726 4517187
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Topographic

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Description

Morphology

Inside a depression about 3 metres in diameter, a gallery opens in a sloping passage that leads into a wide chamber with two levels. Following the entrance gallery, on the right, the ramp continues and reaches a flat stretch. Above is an upper level formed by a large chaos of blocks. Towards the N of the chamber the lower level is regained and the height of the passage section drops noticeably, keeping its width for a few metres and then entering a narrow gallery with a triangular section. Further on, the gallery becomes a small group of reticulated passages and in the last stretch, after an upward step, one enters a chamber of greater height which at one end has an area of clastic products and on the middle wall a very narrow passage appears.

Speleothems

The upper level of the chamber has stalagmitic formations.

Hydrology

The flat stretch is normally covered by a shallow body of water. The narrow gallery with a triangular section runs through the middle of the small temporary watercourse. Through a very narrow passage in the final chamber flows the water that temporarily circulates through the cavity.

Progression

The route estimated by the companions from Tortosa is 117.6 metres; in contrast, the survey carried out by the ERE estimates a slightly longer route: 134 metres.

History

We have no data or references prior to the exploration by members of the SIRE – UEC Tortosa (later EC Tortosa) in September 1979.

In February 1981, members of the ERE – CEC, unaware of the previous exploration, were accompanied by a shepherd to the cavity, explored it and surveyed it, naming it Cova de Serrassoles.