Forat de la Barraca
A 16 m deep pit in Begues, with a 14.5 m shaft, a gallery heading W and a chimney. Located by Rafael Amat i Carreras on 14 August 1923 and explored and surveyed by SIE – CE Àliga in December 1990.
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Forat de la Barraca
A 16 m deep pit in Begues, with a 14.5 m shaft, a gallery heading W and a chimney. Located by Rafael Amat i Carreras on 14 August 1923 and explored and surveyed by SIE – CE Àliga in December 1990.
Begues · Baix Llobregat
Length: 25 m · Depth: 16 m
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A 16 m deep pit in Begues, with a 14.5 m shaft, a gallery heading W and a chimney. Located by Rafael Amat i Carreras on 14 August 1923 and explored and surveyed by SIE – CE Àliga in December 1990.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
Through a small entrance one enters a 14.5 metre shaft that reaches a pile of blocks cemented by lithogenesis. Here a short gallery begins in a W direction with a slight slope in the central zone. At the W end, the roof rises into a narrow chimney.
Speleothems
The parietal flowstone along the shaft is abundant.
Hydrology
Its origin seems linked to the seepage supplied by the torrent when its level was higher and which acted upon two continuity solutions that later joined.
History
Located by Rafael Amat i Carreras on 14 August 1923, before the exploration of the avenc del Mas Traval and, although he does not explore it, he mentions it in his work. It is not until around the early 1980s that a group of friends from Begues, led by Carles Ortiz and the embryo of what in the course of years would become the Begues Espeleo Club, rediscover and explore it. From a much later conversation with Carles himself, he tells us of the existence and situation of the pit, which in December 1990 a small team from SIE – CE Àliga explores and surveys.
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Bibliography
- Amat i Carreras, R. (1924).- “Sota el massís de Garraf. Campanya de l'any 1923” Butlletí del Centre Excursionista de Catalunya 35 (351): 109-136. CEC. Barcelona.
- Dades i topografia inèdites arxiu JM. Miñarro i F. Rubinat.
- Topografia inèdita de Carles Pons (Espeleo Grup l'Hospitalet) finals dels anys 90s.
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