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Cova Petita

Petita cova al Coll d'Ases (Gallifa)

Gallifa • Vallès Occidental5m0

Small cave at Coll d'Ases (Gallifa), with a single 5.5-metre gallery, located by the SIS of CE Terrassa after the 2003 fire and surveyed by Jordi Guillemot in November 2005.

Characteristics

Location

Small cave at Coll d'Ases (Gallifa). From Castellterçol we will follow the BV-1245 road towards Granera; after kilometre 2 we will turn left onto the paved track towards Coll d'Ases and Gallifa. After about 7 kilometres we will reach Coll d'Ases; on the right-hand side and next to the traffic signs a path starts, which we will follow until we find an iron pole where the path splits. We will keep left, which will take us to the base of the cliff where we will find some cairns; shortly after we will find the first of the caves a little more than 250 metres from Coll d'Ases. A few metres further on we will find the rock shelter and then the entrances of the cova Central; we continue onwards, where the cliff turns right and then immediately resumes the previous direction, and 22 metres from the last entrance of the cova Central we find the cova Petita.

Mapa

Entrances

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  1. Petita, Cova

    Elevation: 878 m

    41.708644, 2.091131
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 424386 4617827
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Description

Morphology

It has a single gallery 5.5 metres long.

History

Located by members of the SIS of CE Terrassa after the fire of 2003, in November 2005 Jordi Guillemot surveyed them and named them “Complex de les Falgueres” after the place name that appears on a nearby hill and which on the Editorial Alpina map is georeferenced as Coll de les Falgueres, but on the current ICGC map this place name does not appear anywhere.

This group of cavities is known in hiking circles as Coves de Coll d'Ases, and even the Matagalls-Montserrat route passes just below them.

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Bibliography

  1. Guillemot, Jordi (2007).-”Dos regals del bosc cremat: el complex de les Falgueres i la cova de Salallassera”. VI Trobada d'estudiosos de Sant llorenç del Munt i l'Obac. pp.249-252. Diputació de Barcelona.

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