Skip to main content
Forat de Costa Blanca

Forat de Costa Blanca

An 18-metre-deep pit in Ponts, explored in 1970 by the SIE del CE Àliga.

Ponts • Noguera 42m 18m

An 18-metre-deep pit in Ponts, explored in 1970 by the SIE del CE Àliga.

Characteristics

Location

On the C-14 road from Ponts towards Artesa de Segre, at kilometre 114.48, we will turn left onto a track that leads to a farm; before reaching the farm gate the track turns left and over a distance of 425 metres reaches an esplanade where building material used to be dumped. From here we will descend over a distance of about 180 metres to some cultivated fields below; these cultivated fields occupy the whole valley. We will follow along the right-hand side of the cultivated land and in 150 metres we will reach the mouth of the cavity, which lies within the cultivated land at the boundary with the wooded area.

Map

Entrances

Always verify coordinates and access conditions before setting out.

  1. Costa Blanca, Forat de

    Elevation: 383 m

    41.901851, 1.175025
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 348625 4640488
Download all entrances as GPX

Photos

Forat de Costa Blanca - Photo, Ponts, NogueraView image
Click to enlarge

Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Image © its author.

Image 1 of 9

Description

Morphology

The one-metre-diameter mouth gives way via a 2.5-metre vertical drop to a low-roofed gallery that leads to a small chamber. At the opposite end, and after a second 4-metre drop, a descending gallery with a steep gradient begins, which places us at the point of maximum depth of the cavity, -18.5 metres.

History

Explored in 1970 by the SIE del CE Àliga.

User Comments (0)

No comments yet.

Be the first to share your experience!

Registered Explorations (0)

No explorations registered yet.

Register your visit to this cave!

Bibliography

  1. Ferro i Guitart, Antonio.(1972).-“Avance al catastro del karst en yesos de la cuenca del río Llobregós”. EspeleSie (11):55-73.SIE-CE Àliga. Barcelona.
  2. Gàzquez i Pons, Josep Lluís.(1995).-“Catàleg Espeleològic de la Noguera”. Grallera (3-4):1-90. GELL – CE Lleida.
  3. Valles, Jordi de (2008).-”Alt Urgell, Noguera, Pla d'Urgell, Segarra, Solsonès, Urgell”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol.2):1-384. EC.Gràcia/Federació Catalana Espeleologia.
  • Coordenades, situació i fotografies facilitades per Juli Serrano (SIE-CEA) i Francesc Rubinat (ERE-CEC). Març de 2023.

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