
Forat Negre
An old spring with a 55 m course in Granera, known since time immemorial and documented speleologically since 1964.
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Forat Negre
An old spring with a 55 m course in Granera, known since time immemorial and documented speleologically since 1964.
Granera · Moianès
Length: 55 m · Depth: 3 m
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An old spring with a 55 m course in Granera, known since time immemorial and documented speleologically since 1964.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
The mouth forms a narrow fissure in the lower part that must be passed through for a couple of metres to reach the upper zone and entrance chamber. From here three galleries start: those in a N and S direction are narrow and short, but the one that penetrates towards the E is a little wider (40 cm), considerably higher (2 – 2.5 metres) and about 12 metres long; halfway along its course a new gallery opens, narrower and just over 5 metres long. At the end of the main gallery, which has been gaining a little height, it meets another perpendicularly. To the left it ends within a few metres and to the right it continues about 20 metres further until it becomes impassable due to narrowness, but halfway along its course a new fork to the N is still found that ends just over 5 metres from its start.
Hydrology
It is an old spring excavated in the Eocene conglomerates deposited on the sandstones of the same period. Formed at the expense of a small residual network of joints in orthogonal crossing (N-S; E-W).
History
Cavity known since time immemorial by the people of the area. The first speleological visit that we have documented corresponds to the GES – CMB in September 1964. From a “graffiti” in the entrance chamber we know that in 1966 people from the TiM de Sabadell were there and in June 1973 members of the SIE – CE Àliga make the survey and study of the cavity that gives rise to the first documentary citation.
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Bibliography
1. Borràs, J.; Miñarro, JM.; Talavera, F. (1980).- Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol. 6): el Baix Empordà, el Gironès, la Selva, l'Osona, el Vallès Oriental i el Maresme: 290 pp. Ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
2. Tomàs, X.; Yagüe, I. (1974).- “Génesis y analogías de las cavidades del municipio de Granera” EspeleoSie (15): 133-141. SIE – CE Àliga. Barcelona.
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