Forat del Pla de la Tomba

Small pit 9 metres deep in the serra de les Corones (Albanyà), a rounded, bell-shaped swallow hole 8 metres deep that at its base connects with an impenetrable fissure.

Albanyà • Alt Empordà 12m 9m

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Small pit 9 metres deep in the serra de les Corones (Albanyà), a rounded, bell-shaped swallow hole 8 metres deep that at its base connects with an impenetrable fissure.

Albanyà · Alt Empordà

Length: 12 m · Depth: 9 m

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Small pit 9 metres deep in the serra de les Corones (Albanyà), a rounded, bell-shaped swallow hole 8 metres deep that at its base connects with an impenetrable fissure.

Characteristics

Type: Pothole
Municipality: Albanyà
Region: Alt Empordà
Unit: Alta Garrotxa
Length: 12 meters
Depth: 9 meters
Major Unit: Prepirineu
Lithology: Limestone
Updated on EspeleoÍndex: November 17, 2012

Location

It is located in the serra de les Corones, at the S end of the Pla de la Tomba and to the N of the Puig de Torroella. Approximate coordinates without much precision.

Entrances

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Forat del Pla de la Tomba
Elevation: 1028 m
42.270293, 2.704688
UTM 31T (ED 50) 475740 4680034
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Topographic

Forat del Pla de la Tomba - Topography, Albanyà, Alt Empordà

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Description

Morphology

It is a swallow hole in the form of a rounded, bell-shaped pit 8 metres deep that at its base connects with an impenetrable fissure.

History

Located by Josep Cuenca and another companion in 1983, based on the indications of the inhabitants of the Santuari de la Mare de Deu del Mont, and surveyed by J. Cuenca and F. Cardona in December of the same year.

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Bibliography

Cardona, Ferran; Cuenca, Josep; Samarra, F. Xavier.(1988).-”L'Avenc del Ginebret. Albanyà – Alt Empordà.” Exploracions (12):25-28. EC Gràcia. Barcelona.
Miret, Francesc; García,Martí.(1999).-”Catàleg Espeleològic de l'Alta Garrotxa”. Coves de l'Alta Garrotxa. Pp 1-108.
Miret, F.(1996).-”Les Baumes, Coves, Forats i Tutes del terme d'Albanyà”. Albanyà (8). Albanyà.