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Cova Remuntant de la Bretxa

Cova Remuntant de la Bretxa

Cova Remuntant, an ascending cavity with a 21 m route in the Coma Oriola (la Masella, Cerdanya), explored and catalogued on 16 July 2015 by members of the grup de l'espeleodijous.

Urús • Cerdanya 21m 10m

Cova Remuntant, an ascending cavity with a 21 m route in the Coma Oriola (la Masella, Cerdanya), explored and catalogued on 16 July 2015 by members of the grup de l'espeleodijous.

Characteristics

Location

The cavity is located in the Coma Oriola (la Masella, Cerdanya). From la Masella (Alp) one must take the road that climbs to the refugi de la Pleta de Das and continue onward to the point where it crosses the llera de Coma Oriola (teleesquí a la Costa Pelada). From here one must go up the valley for about 800 metres and a drop of a little more than 100, until finding on the right (left hydrographic slope) a craggy relief bounded by scree slopes on its eastern side, which must be surmounted, and where all the cavities are located. The Cova Remuntant is the one found on the southernmost spur of these reliefs.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Remuntant de la Bretxa, Cova

    Elevation: 2273 m

    42.326298, 1.889369
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 408491 4686603
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Photos

Cova Remuntant de la Bretxa - Photo, Urús, CerdanyaView image
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Description

Morphology

Through a wide entrance one enters a vestibule with an ascending floor and the presence of blocks. At its far end and after a small step, a gallery about 10 metres long and also ascending begins, which is immediately closed off at the level + 10 relative to the lowest point of the entrance. The total route is 21 m.

Other details

All the caves and cracks located in the area are residual cavities, probably vestiges of other climatic circumstances. It is undeniable that the valley bears the imprint of a glacial past, and even today the action of ice widening the fracture structure is responsible for small cavities and for the great extent of these fragmentation scree slopes. The original appearance of the Coma Oriola (according to the ICGC: Comaoriola), has been profoundly altered by the imprint of the ski resort, since a piste runs through this valley. In summer and therefore out of season, the excavators, concrete mixers, etc. have extraordinarily transformed the bed of the basin, widening it and modifying its margins, causing original vegetation and soils to disappear and burying channels.

History

Although some of the cavities had certainly been observed by skiers and mountaineers who pass through the area, they had never been the object of speleologists until 16 July 2015, when members of the grup de l'espeleodijous proceeded to explore, study and catalogue a good number of cavities in the area.

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Bibliography

  • Totes les dades, topografies i fotografies han estat extretes del blog: espeleobloc.blogspot (Apunts dels dies 30 i 31-7-2015). Les coordenades han estat facilitades pel mateix equip de l'Espeleodijous.

Source: Espeleoindex (espeleoindex.com), modified. CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/