Caves of Sales de Llierca
Sales de Llierca, in the Garrotxa, has 21 catalogued cavities: 5 pits and 16 caves, with a total length of 2097 metres and a maximum depth of 30 metres. The Sistema de les Bores del Borró, at 1315 metres, is the longest and deepest cavity.
Sales de Llierca has 21 catalogued caves, including 5 potholes and 16 caves. The longest is Sistema de les Bores del Borró (1,315 m). Most caves are found in limestone.
Length adds each cave once (a system counts once), and depth is that of the deepest cave, canyons excluded.
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Sales de Llierca, a municipality in the Garrotxa, has 21 catalogued cavities: 5 pits and 16 caves. The total inventoried length is 2097 metres and the maximum depth reached is 30 metres. The lithologies present are Limestone, with 17 cavities, and Gypsum, with 4.
The most notable cavity is the Sistema de les Bores del Borró, with 1315 metres of length and 30 metres of depth, excavated in gypsum and explored by the GE Badalona in 1993 and 1994, with access from Tortellà. Other relevant cavities are the Cova de l'Orri, with 157 metres of length and a large chamber 9 metres high and 8 metres wide, explored in 1933; the Avenc de Sant Miquel, 20 metres deep, explored in 1973 by the GE Olot; the Cova dels Ermitons, with 63 metres of length and an ascending gallery of +18 metres, with an archaeological deposit of the Alta Garrotxa; and the Cova del Bisbe, with 56 metres of length, with a single gallery and a Middle Palaeolithic deposit.
Among the deep cavities there are also the Forat del Fum, 28 metres deep, with an entrance of 2x1.5 metres, and the Avenc de la Rosita, 25 metres deep, explored on 20 February 1999 by the Grup Sadernes and the GASALP de Bescanó.
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