
l'Escletxa
A 66-metre-long cave in Castellar del Riu, explored and surveyed in June 2016 by the Centre Excursionista de Castellar del Vallès.
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l'Escletxa
A 66-metre-long cave in Castellar del Riu, explored and surveyed in June 2016 by the Centre Excursionista de Castellar del Vallès.
Castellar del Riu · Berguedà
Length: 66 m · Depth: 12 m
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A 66-metre-long cave in Castellar del Riu, explored and surveyed in June 2016 by the Centre Excursionista de Castellar del Vallès.
Topographic
Espeleoindex · CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ · Image © its author.
Photos
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Description
Morphology
Access to the cavity is via a large fissure in the cliff, 3 m wide on average and open to the sky; after 18 m of passage and a steep drop of 11 m, the cavity proper would begin.
The entrance porch, 19 m high and of considerable width, gives access, acting as a distributor, to the different chambers of the cavity.
From the distributor in a northerly direction, the cavity has two superimposed galleries, both separated in turn by respective ledges, the upper one being the larger in width and length; the upper gallery has two chimneys at its end, the first of which reaches the greatest height of the cavity.
From the distributor and in an easterly direction, there is a balcony about 3 m above the rest of the chamber; a narrow passage at the balcony allows access to a small chamber which in turn communicates with the outside through a small concretion-covered conduit.
In a north-easterly direction the cavity loses height and slope; we pass beside some large blocks until a final chamber with a low ceiling, in which there are two impenetrable fissures blocked by boulders where a certain air current is noticeable.
Speleothems
A small concretion-covered conduit connects the small chamber with the outside.
History
The known reference of which we have record is the exploration carried out in June 2016 by members of the Centre Excursionista de Castellar del Vallès, in which they also surveyed the cavity.
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Bibliography
- Dades extretes del blog (cavitatsdecatalunya.blogspot.com.es) de Jordi de Valles, post del dia 11-09-2016. Text i fotografies de Jordi Navarro i Montse Mañosa (Centre Excursionista de Castellar del Vallès).
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