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Túnel de Vent d'ingla

Túnel de Vent d'ingla

Petit túnel a la Vall d'Ingla (Bellver de Cerdanya)

Bellver de Cerdanya • Cerdanya21m6m

Small tunnel in the Vall d'Ingla (Bellver de Cerdanya), an undocumented cavity discovered and documented by members of Espeleodijous on 30-11-2023 while searching for the also undocumented Cova de l'Esclop.

Characteristics

Location

Leaving Talló (a hamlet of Bellver) we take the paved track that goes into the Vall d'Ingla. After passing the Romanesque chapel of Sant Serni the asphalt ends, but the track is suitable for cars.

A few metres further on from the Font del Capellà and after 2.7km from Sant Serni, we leave the cars.

From here a steep path stabilized with logs starts. Climbing a few metres we find the first climbing section, we pass a metal fence, we follow a well-marked path.

Shortly after, an optional path branches off to the left, very steep, equipped with fixed ropes that in approximately 15 minutes places us below a cliff where we find the so-called balmes or Abric de l'Ingla where some faint rock paintings made using fingerprints are represented.

We can also reach the same spot by following the previous well-marked path which makes a slightly longer detour (there are also fixed ropes on the most exposed sections)

Once at the balmes we observe a large number of climbing routes of notable difficulty.

We skirt the cliff in a Southerly direction and pass below the Balma Penjada del Grau d'Ingla.

When the walls end, a path climbs to the upper part of the cliff, we follow the trail until it veers far to the left, we leave it and continue straight on crossing a spur without losing height. Here there is no longer any kind of path and we must advance below the boxwoods until the point marked by the coordinates.

Mapa

Entrances

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  1. Vent d'ingla, Túnel

    Elevation: 1473 m

    42.331443, 1.778910
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 399398 4687299
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Photos

Túnel de Vent d'ingla - Photo, Bellver de Cerdanya, CerdanyaView image
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Description

Morphology

Above a short conduit excavated in the cliff opens a porch of good dimensions which, to reach, requires overcoming some steps and entering a gallery, slightly ascending, that gradually diminishes in dimensions and turns to the right until after about twenty metres it emerges again outside through an opening that comes out on the same cliff a few metres away.

A short distance away, further N still another conduit of smaller dimensions appears and which a few metres after entering becomes impenetrable.

History

Undocumented cavity, discovered and documented by members of Espeleodijous on 30-11-2023 while searching for the also undocumented Cova de l'Esclop.

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Bibliography

  • Totes les dades, topografia i fotografies han estat extretes del web: espeleodijous.cat Apunt d'exploració del 30-11-2023

Source: Espeleoindex (espeleoindex.com), modified. CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/