l'Espluguell
Cova de 77 metres de recorregut a la Serra de Lleràs.
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l'Espluguell
Cova de 77 metres de recorregut a la Serra de Lleràs.
Conca de Dalt · Pallars Jussà
Length: 77 m · Depth: 20 m
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A 77-metre-long cave in the Serra de Lleràs, with a large triangular entrance and the remains of old buildings converted into livestock pens.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
The entrance, triangular in shape and of large dimensions, shows the remains of old buildings that have currently been converted into livestock pens. The gallery, oriented NNW, is occupied by a chaos of blocks, after which there is an amphitheatre of clay and flows where the cavity abruptly ends.
History
On 27 August 1910, Racovitza, Jeannel, Faura and Rocafort arrive at Serradell. They visit: Forat Negre and Forat la Bou. They mention by reference, but it does not appear that they visited them: Espluga de Sorta, l'Espluguell, l'Esplugallonga and el Barbuixell.
The following day, 28 August, they visit the cova de Toralla.
Thomas Casajuana, in his, and possibly last, speleological writing (2000), makes a brief reference to a campaign by members of the Club Muntanyenc Barcelonès (Llopis, Thomas and others) carried out in the Serradell area in 1946 and which had remained practically unpublished. Among the cavities explored and drawn he mentions l'Espluguell, without providing any data.
On 19 and 20 March 1960 it is visited by the ERE of the CE Catalunya, with only a mention of the cave appearing in the magazine Montaña no. 60.
The first survey, showing only the plan, carried out by the GE Badalona, appears published in the report of the I Campamento regional de espeleólogos in 1966.
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Bibliography
Borràs, J; Miñarro, J.M.; Talavera, F.(1979).-Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (Vol.3). ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
Faura i Sans, Mn.(1911).-'Excursiones espeleológicas realizadas durante el año 1910 en la región catalana'. Bol. Soc. Esp. de Historia Natural (6):355-377.
GEB. (1966).-Memoria I Campamento Regional de Espeleólogos (Serradell). CRES-FCM.
Gràcia, Joaquim (1960).-'Espeleologia en el valle de Serradell'. Montaña (60): 189-194. Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. Barcelona.
Thomas Casajuana, JM. (2000).-'La dècada pre-GES vista per un dels seus protagonistes'. Sota Terra (8): 4-7. GES-CM Barcelonès.
Valles, Jordi de (2008).-'Alta Ribagorça, Pallars Jussà, Pallars Sobirà i Val d'Aran'. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol.1):1-319. E C Gràcia/FCE.
Vega, Josep de la. (1981).-'Aplec de documents arqueològics de les coves del Montsec i llur projecció a les comarques i serres properes'. Mediterrània (12): 1-359.
Dades extretes del blog 'espeleobloc', post del dia 18-9-2012. Coordenades i fotos de Juli Serrano.
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