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Caves of Sant Feliu de Pallerols

Sant Feliu de Pallerols, in the Garrotxa, has 11 cavities: 4 pits and 7 caves, with a total length of 557 m and a maximum depth of 31 m. Avenc de Can Roca Roja Nº2 is the longest (149 m) and the deepest (31 m).

Sant Feliu de Pallerols has 11 catalogued caves, including 4 potholes and 7 caves. The longest is Avenc de Can Roca Roja Nº2 (149 m). Most caves are found in sandstone.

11 caves
557 m total length
31m max depth

Length adds each cave once (a system counts once), and depth is that of the deepest cave, canyons excluded.

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Sant Feliu de Pallerols, a municipality in the Garrotxa, has 11 catalogued cavities: 4 pits and 7 caves. The total recorded length is 557 m and the maximum depth is 31 m. The lithologies present are sandstones, in 8 cavities, and travertines, in 3.

Avenc de Can Roca Roja Nº2 is the longest cavity, at 149 m, and the deepest, at 31 m; it has two entrances, an entry ramp, galleries, shafts and a chamber, and a total elevation difference of 31.5 m. It is followed by Avenc de Can Roca Roja Nº1, at 111 m and 27 m deep, and Cova de Roca Lladre, with a length of 80 m, with two entrances, a 5 m shaft and an estimated elevation difference of 13 m (+7;-6). Other cavities are Cova de la Torre, at 47 m, and Avenc de Can Roca Roja Nº3, at 46 m and 12 m deep, explored and surveyed on 9 June 1976 by the GGG.

Among the deepest cavities there are also Avenc de Can Roca Roja Nº4, at 22 m, and Cova 2 de les Feixasses, at 15 m, a descending fissure between blocks in the upper part of the Clot de l'Infern.

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