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Cova Sm-16 de la Serra del Mas

Cova Sm-16 de la Serra del Mas

Cave with a 9-metre passage in Vallirana (Ordal), hidden in a bend covered by vegetation.

Vallirana • Baix Llobregat 8m 6m

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Cova Sm-16 de la Serra del Mas

Cave with a 9-metre passage in Vallirana (Ordal), hidden in a bend covered by vegetation.

Vallirana · Baix Llobregat

Length: 8 m · Depth: 6 m

Updated record

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Main entrance reference 41.354113, 1.932971 UTM 31 · 410742 4578617
Topographic map of the main entrance
Main entrance · ICGC topographic map

Cave with a 9-metre passage in Vallirana (Ordal), hidden in a bend covered by vegetation.

Characteristics

Location

It is located 93 metres from the centre of the doline of the Bassa de la Llacuna in direction E30N, shortly after starting to descend the slope and 11 metres to the NE of the pit SM-13.

Map

Entrances

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  1. Serra del Mas, Cova Sm-16 de la

    Elevation: 512 m

    41.354113, 1.932971
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 410742 4578617
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

The entrance is hidden in a bend covered by vegetation. The passage is narrow but comfortable to negotiate with a small step. The base of this step is the start of a descending gallery that ends at 8 metres of passage in a sudden change of direction, becoming an impenetrable crevice at -6 metres of depth.

Progression

The passage is narrow but comfortable to negotiate with a small step.

History

Discovered and explored by the SEO-CEV during 1996, they returned to survey it on 15-11-1997.

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Bibliography

  1. Rubinat Aumedes, Francesc (2004).- “Catàleg Espeleològic del Massís de l'Ordal”. Espeleosie (Monogràfic):1-117. SIE del CE Àliga. Barcelona.
  1. SEO del CEV. (2001).-“La Serra del Mas” Ardenya (1): 6-34. SEO-CE Vallirana.
  2. Valles, Jordi de (2017).-”Baix Llobregat”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (Vol.6):1-468. ECG/FCE
  1. Coordenades situació i fotografies facilitades per Juli Serrano (SIE-CEA) el gener de 2021.

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