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Cova G d'Olopte

Cova G d'Olopte

Small cave with a 13 m passage near Olopte (Isòvol), with a narrow meander-shaped gallery.

Isòvol • Cerdanya 13m 2m

Small cave with a 13 m passage near Olopte (Isòvol), with a narrow meander-shaped gallery.

Characteristics

Location

Along the N-260 road, heading from Bellver de Cerdanya to Puigcerdà, shortly before kilometre 191 there is the turn-off for the GIV-4032 road that leads to the small village of Olopte. From the entrance to the village, follow carrer Església until reaching carrer A; on the left a street branches off downhill and soon becomes a track until reaching a bridge that crosses the river Duran; just after crossing the bridge we continue in a N direction, following a path upstream for 140 metres and climbing about 40 metres from the path up the right hydrological bank of the river Duran. On the right-hand side as we go along we will find a small crag where the cavity opens.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Olopte, Cova G d'

    Elevation: 1163 m

    42.391416, 1.810261
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 402074 4693921
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

Narrow meander-shaped gallery. At the entrance mouth itself, at a higher level, there is a short ascending gallery only 3 metres long.

Speleothems

Halfway along the passage we find on the left a small conduit with some lithogenic formations.

History

The group of caves of Olopte catalogued from the letter “E” to “I” were explored and surveyed by members of the ERE-CEC around 1966, although they remained unpublished until 1978, when the colleague Josep Castell (epr) provided them for the first volume of the Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (1978).

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Bibliography

  1. Borràs, J.; Miñarro,JM.; Talavera, F: (1978).-Catàleg espeleològic de Catalunya. Vol. 1 (l'Alt Urgell i la Cerdanya): 166. Ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
  2. Valles, Jordi de (2009).-”Berguedà, Cerdanya, Garrotxa, Ripollès”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol.3):1-381. EC Gràcia/FCE.
  • Revisió de coordenades dades i fotografies facilitades per Juli Serrano (SIE-CEA) i Francesc Rubinat (ERE-CEC). Actualització octubre de 2021.

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