Coveta dels Penyals

A wide rock shelter on the riera de Jafre (Garraf), 19 metres wide, which narrows in the shape of a funnel over 5 metres.

Olivella • Garraf 5m

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Coveta dels Penyals

A wide rock shelter on the riera de Jafre (Garraf), 19 metres wide, which narrows in the shape of a funnel over 5 metres.

Olivella · Garraf

Length: 5 m

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A wide rock shelter on the riera de Jafre (Garraf), 19 metres wide, which narrows in the shape of a funnel over 5 metres.

Characteristics

Type: Cave
Municipality: Olivella
Region: Garraf
Unit: Garraf, el
Length: 5 meters
Depth: 0 meters
Major Unit: Serralada Litoral
Lithology: Limestone
Updated on EspeleoÍndex: November 17, 2012

Location

From the avenc dels Esquelets, follow the riera de Jafre downstream (the path follows the riera, at times along the streambed and at others along one or the other bank) and when you reach the fifth meander, almost below Penya Embassada, you must climb about 7 metres up the right bank to reach the cave.

Entrances

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Penyals, Coveta dels
Elevation: 172 m
41.297150, 1.836640
UTM 31T (ED 50) 402694 4572601
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Topographic

Coveta dels Penyals - Topography, Olivella, Garraf

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Description

Morphology

A wide rock shelter 19 metres wide that narrows in the shape of a funnel over a length of 5 metres. The height at the entrance is 2.5 metres and it narrows as the ceiling descends, so that at the end it is only 0.5 metres high.

Other details

It appears to be the product of lateral erosion by the riera de Jafre, when it flowed at the current level of the rock shelter.

History

The only information we have is that given by members of the Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer (Vilanova i la Geltrú), who surveyed it in August 1981.

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Bibliography

Castell, J.; Tejedor,J. (1982).- “Cadastre Espeleològic de la comarca del Garraf” (2ª part). Butll. de la Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer (6èna època): 84-152. Vilanova i la Geltrú.