Caves and potholes in the Costa del Tarragonès - Cap de Salou geological unit
Spans: Tarragonès
Part of the Serralada Prelitoral major unit, dominated by limestone (95 %). Its caves are spread across Tarragonès.
A unit of coastal limestone reliefs in the Tarragonès, with 41 cavities (35 caves and 6 pits), 3428 m of total passage and 58 m of maximum depth. It includes the Cova Urbana de Tarragona and various cavities at Cap de Salou and Altafulla.
There are 41 catalogued cavities in the Costa del Tarragonès - Cap de Salou geological unit, including 6 potholes and 35 caves. The longest is Cova Urbana de Tarragona (2,441m).
Length adds each cave once (a system counts once), and depth is that of the deepest cave, canyons excluded.
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The Costa del Tarragonès - Cap de Salou unit, within the Serralada Prelitoral, comprises 41 cavities: 35 caves and 6 pits. The total inventoried passage is 3428 m and the maximum depth reached is 58 m. Limestone predominates (39 cavities), with the presence of Dolomite (2).
The most notable cavity is the Cova Urbana de Tarragona, with 2441 m of passage and 58 m of depth, discovered by chance in 1996 during the construction of a car park on carrer del Gasòmetre, no. 32. Other notable cavities are the Coves del Lladre (92 m), the Avenc I Cova de la Cala de la Móra (55 m, with a 19.72 m shaft), the Foradades de la Jovera (54 m) and the Pou de l'Encantament (47 m, 28 m of depth, explored by the SIE del CE Àliga in the summer of 1973 and surveyed on 20 January 1974).
The coastal limestone reliefs of the Tarragonès include small caves open by the sea, such as the Avenc d'en Campos (10 m of depth) at Tamarit, which communicates with a cave open to the sea, or the Avenc Petit de l'Encantament (16 m of depth, with a practicable depth of -16.5 m) at Altafulla.
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The 20 longest
- 1Cova Urbana de TarragonaTarragona2,441 m
- 2Coves del LladreSalou, Tarragona92 m
- 3Avenc I Cova de la Cala de la MóraTarragona55 m
- 4Foradades de la JoveraTarragona54 m
- 5Pou de l'EncantamentAltafulla, Tarragona47 m
- 6la Roca ForadadaTorredembarra, Tarragona46 m
- 7Cova de la Platja de la MóraTarragona41 m
- 8Cova de Cala FontSalou, Tarragona40 m
- 9Cova del NàutilTarragona35 m
- 10Cova de PosidóTarragona34 m
- 11Cova Gran del RocTarragona31 m
- 12Túnel Submarí de la Punta de la MóraTarragona31 m
- 13Cova de la SavinosaTarragona30 m
- 14Cova del KrakenTarragona28 m
- 15Cova de TamaritTarragona27 m
- 16Cova CandiTarragona26 m
- 17Cova de la Pell d'ovellaTorredembarra, Tarragona25 m
- 18Cova de l'ArgonautaTarragona24 m
- 19Cova del GosTarragona24 m
- 20Avenc Petit de l'EncantamentAltafulla, Tarragona23 m
The 20 deepest
- 1Cova Urbana de TarragonaTarragona58 m
- 2Pou de l'EncantamentAltafulla, Tarragona28 m
- 3Avenc I Cova de la Cala de la MóraTarragona24 m
- 4Avenc Petit de l'EncantamentAltafulla, Tarragona16 m
- 5Avenc d'en CamposTarragona10 m
- 6Cova del GosTarragona9 m
- 7Cova de la SavinosaTarragona8 m
- 8Bufador del Pas de la Mala DonaSalou, Tarragona6 m
- 9Coves del LladreSalou, Tarragona6 m
- 10el BufadorTorredembarra, Tarragona6 m
- 11Cova de l'ArgonautaTarragona5 m
- 12Cova de Cala FontSalou, Tarragona3 m
- 13Túnel Submarí de la Punta de la MóraTarragona3 m
- 14Cova de la FalconeraSalou, Tarragona2 m
- 15Cova del Cantó de la MóraTarragona2 m
- 16Cova Gran del RocTarragona2 m
- 17Cova de la Platja de la MóraTarragona1 m
- 18Cova de TamaritTarragona1 m
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