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Cova Penjada

Cave with a 53-metre passage in Queralbs, formed by a regular and slightly meandering gallery.

Queralbs • Ripollès 53m 7m

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Cova Penjada

Cave with a 53-metre passage in Queralbs, formed by a regular and slightly meandering gallery.

Queralbs · Ripollès

Length: 53 m · Depth: 7 m

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Main entrance reference 42.337041, 2.170460 UTM 31 · 431756 4687736
Topographic map of the main entrance
Main entrance · ICGC topographic map

Cave with a 53-metre passage in Queralbs, formed by a regular and slightly meandering gallery.

Characteristics

Location

Following the Núria rack railway line towards Queralbs, it is located 48 metres after the exit of the tunnel that crosses the cova de Rialb, and 6 metres above the track.

Very approximate coordinates.

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Entrances

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  1. Penjada, Cova

    Elevation: 1040 m

    42.337041, 2.170460
    UTM 31T (ED 50) 431756 4687736
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Description

Morphology

The cave is formed by a regular and slightly meandering gallery, 28 metres in development with a slight downward slope that reaches -2 metres. At 18 metres along the passage, on the right we find a practically cylindrical gallery of somewhat reduced dimensions that climbs steeply until reaching the highest point of the cavity at +7 metres. This gallery presents two sharp changes of direction until reaching its final stretch, developed along a joint running NE-SW.

Speleothems

The ascending gallery has its base covered by a series of microgours.

Other details

The floor of the main gallery is formed by a thick layer of earthy sediments.

History

The first reference to the exploration of this cavity dates from 22 October 1972, carried out by members of the SIE del CE Àliga.

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Bibliography

  1. Borràs, J.; Miñarro, JM.; Talavera, F.(1980).-”el Ripollès, la Garrotxa i l'Alt Empordà”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya. (vol. 4):1-296. Ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
  2. Sirera i Navia, Antoni; Tomás i Corretgé, Xavier.(1973).-”La cova de Rialb y cavidades cercanas en el valle del Freser”. Comunicacions III Simpòsium Espeleologia. pp.154-178. Agrupació Cientifico-Excursionista de Mataró.

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