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Cova i Abric de les Gunyoles

Cova i Abric de les Gunyoles

Tiny little caves near les Gunyoles (Alt Penedès), with a gallery of about 9 metres and a small shelter just over 2 metres deep.

Avinyonet del Penedès • Alt Penedès 9m

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Cova i Abric de les Gunyoles

Tiny little caves near les Gunyoles (Alt Penedès), with a gallery of about 9 metres and a small shelter just over 2 metres deep.

Avinyonet del Penedès · Alt Penedès

Length: 9 m

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Main entrance reference 41.350520, 1.783579 UTM 31 · 398240 4578383
Topographic map of the main entrance
Main entrance · ICGC topographic map

Tiny little caves near les Gunyoles (Alt Penedès), with a gallery of about 9 metres and a small shelter just over 2 metres deep.

Characteristics

Location

Located in the village centre of les Gunyoles (Avinyonet del Penedès). We will position ourselves on carrer Esplugues, from where the camí del pessebre starts; in less than a hundred metres it passes by the cave mouth and continues a little further on until it links up with the camí de l'Arboçar, which passes above the cave.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Cova de les Gunyoles

    Elevation: 336 m

    41.350520, 1.783579
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 398240 4578383
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  2. Gunyoles, Abric de les

    Elevation: 335 m

    41.350411, 1.783667
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 398247 4578370
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

The mouth, facing NE, presents a single gallery, slightly ascending and about 9 metres long. At the entrance, a little wider, a small chamber is formed with a smoke-blackened ceiling.

Right beside the cave there is a small hollow, Abric de les Gunyoles, with its mouth facing E and forming a tiny chamber, also with a smoke-blackened ceiling, and measuring just over 2 metres deep.

History

Undoubtedly known since ancient times and used as a shelter. The only data we know are those given by members of SIRE – UEC Sants who visited them in March 1982.

Since 1976 and at Christmas, the Pessebre Vivent Parlat is performed at les Gunyoles, a spectacle in which the people of the village take part and which uses the cave and its surroundings for the staging.

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Bibliography

  1. Aymamí, G. (1986).- “Contribució al coneixement espeleològic de l'Alt Penedès (8ª nota)”. Excursionisme (131): 26-27. Unió Excursionista de Catalunya. Barcelona.
  • Actualització de coordenades, dades i fotografies facilitades per Juli Serrano (SIE-CEA) i Francesc Rubinat (ERE-CEC). Juny 2023.


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