Pou del Diable

A 12-metre-deep collapse pit in Veciana (Anoia), with a 14 x 16 metre entrance in a doline 25 metres in diameter.

Veciana • Anoia 22m 12m

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Pou del Diable

A 12-metre-deep collapse pit in Veciana (Anoia), with a 14 x 16 metre entrance in a doline 25 metres in diameter.

Veciana · Anoia

Length: 22 m · Depth: 12 m

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A 12-metre-deep collapse pit in Veciana (Anoia), with a 14 x 16 metre entrance in a doline 25 metres in diameter.

Characteristics

Type: Pothole
Municipality: Veciana
Region: Anoia
Unit: Altiplà de la Segarra
Length: 22 meters
Depth: 12 meters
Major Unit: Depressió Central
Lithology: Limestone
Updated on EspeleoÍndex: January 19, 2020

Location

From the A-2 motorway, at km 534 (level with the Port de la Panadella on the old A-2), there is the exit that via the B-100 road leads to Montmaneu and Sant Guim de Freixenet. In this village you must follow the BV-1001 towards Sant Martí Sesgueioles and Calaf. Shortly after leaving Sant Guim and passing the Rubiola farmhouse, at km 12.1 and on the left (between the road and the railway line), a few metres from the road, is the large depression where the pit opens.

Entrances

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Pou del Diable
Elevation: 715 m
41.662960, 1.434890
UTM 31T (ED 50) 369792 4613743
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Topographic

Pou del Diable - Topography, Veciana, Anoia

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Description

Morphology

Almost circular entrance, 14 x 16 metres, located at the bottom of what appears to be a dissolution doline some 25 metres in diameter. The plan of the 10-metre shaft is of a substantially equal size and is full of blocks and various detritus which, due to the proximity of urban centres, have turned it into a veritable dump. Currently (2020), a railing surrounds the cavity in order to protect it.

The cavity is set in a bank of marly limestone of the Tertiary, extremely well bedded. The thickness of the strata is less than 20 centimetres and in some cases only 5 or 6.

Hydrology

Typical collapse cavity, caused by the loss of volume of the underlying materials that have been carried away by an underground water current that collects the infiltrations of various dissolution dolines existing in the sector. The age of the pit must be very recent, clearly post-glacial, and possibly only a few hundred years old.

History

The Pou (or Forat) del Diable is very well known in the area. The first speleological visit of which we have a record is the one carried out by members of SIRE – UEC Sants in 1964. In July 1972 it was visited by members of ERE-CEC and shortly afterwards, in February 1973, by SIE-CEA; both visits gave rise to respective articles.

In Sant Guim (the nearest locality, although the cavity belongs to the municipality of Veciana), there is the legend that this pit was made by the devils one night, and the earth they took out of it they carried to Mallorca. Other neighbours have even speculated that it is the product of the impact of a meteorite.

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Bibliography

Romero, M. (1977).- “Fitxes de cavitats: Pou del Diable” Espeleòleg (25): 366-367. ERE-CEC. Barcelona

Sabroso, J. ; Victoria,JM. (1973).- “Una sima de hundimiento, el Forat del Diable” Comunicacions del III Simposium d'Espeleologia:179-182. Escola Catalana d'Espeleologia i Agrupació Científico Excursionista de Mataró.