Espluga de Cal Jaumetó
An 8-metre-deep rock shelter in Odèn, inhabited well into the 20th century, with smoke-blackened walls, an oven, built-in cupboards, a small dripping spring and corrals.
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Espluga de Cal Jaumetó
An 8-metre-deep rock shelter in Odèn, inhabited well into the 20th century, with smoke-blackened walls, an oven, built-in cupboards, a small dripping spring and corrals.
Odèn · Solsonès
Length: 8 m
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An 8-metre-deep rock shelter in Odèn, inhabited well into the 20th century, with smoke-blackened walls, an oven, built-in cupboards, a small dripping spring and corrals.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
It is a rock shelter with a frontal opening of 28 metres by 6 metres high and 8 metres deep.
Hydrology
A small dripping spring.
Progression
We will follow this trail in a NW direction, alongside a field. We will climb in zigzags through the middle of the forest, and before reaching the edge of an upper field, at a left-hand bend, under a pine tree, among holm oaks, we will leave the trail and follow to the right an abandoned path, along a gentle slope, which will bring us right below the cal Jaumetó rock shelter.
Other details
It is a rock shelter that had been used as a dwelling because of its good position over the Vall del riu Fred, and as a refuge from the inclemencies of the weather because it faces S, very well sheltered from the north wind and the rain in winter, and sunny in summer. We will still find the walls very blackened with soot, an oven, built-in cupboards, corrals and half-collapsed walls.
History
Cavity known and used as a dwelling since time immemorial. It was inhabited by the family that gave it its name well into the 20th century.
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Bibliography
- Borràs,J; Miñarro,J.M; Talavera,F.(1980).-”l'Urgell, el Solsonès, la Segarra i el Berguedà”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol 5):1-233. Ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
- Codina, Salvador.(2003).- “Espluga de Cal Jaumetó” Corriol (130):11-12. CE Solsonès.
- Valles, Jordi de (2009).-”Alt Urgell, Noguera, Pla d'Urgell,Segarra, Solsonès, Urgell” Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol.2):278-279. EC Gràcia – FCE.
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