Caves of Collbató
Collbató, in the Baix Llobregat, brings together 58 cavities: 38 caves and 20 pits, with 2467 m of total passage and a maximum depth of 148 m. It highlights the Coves del Salnitre and the Pou de Costa Dreta, in Montserrat conglomerates.
Collbató has 58 catalogued caves, including 20 potholes and 38 caves. The longest is Coves del Salnitre (958m) and the deepest is Pou de Costa Dreta (148m). Most caves are found in conglomerate.
Length adds each cave once (a system counts once), and depth is that of the deepest cave, canyons excluded.
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Collbató, a municipality in the Baix Llobregat, brings together 58 inventoried cavities: 38 caves and 20 pits. The group totals 2467 metres of passage and reaches a maximum depth of 148 metres. The dominant lithology is conglomerate, present in 57 of the cavities, while limestone appears in 1.
Among the most notable cavities are the Coves del Salnitre, with 958 metres of passage and a vertical extent of 42.7 metres (-19.5/+23.2), rich in history and speleothems. The Pou de Costa Dreta, with a vertical extent of 148 metres, includes the Via Directa, the Via Transversal and the Via Gràcia. Other notable cavities are the Cova Freda, 232 metres long, known since time immemorial, and the Avenc Ventós, 21 metres deep, discovered and explored in 1963 by the Grup d'Espeleologia de Badalona.
The territory also includes the Pou Petit del Torrent Fondo, 35 metres deep, with three shafts of 9, 13 and 10 metres, and the Pou de la Sajolida, 29 metres deep, with a final crawlway cleared in the summer of 2009. The Cova del Pont, 67 metres long, is a chaotic cave in the torrent del Pont formed by large collapse blocks with three interconnected levels.
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The 20 longest
- 1Coves del SalnitreCollbató, Barcelona958 m
- 2Pou de Costa DretaCollbató, Barcelona250 m
- 3Cova FredaCollbató, Barcelona232 m
- 4Avenc VentósCollbató, Barcelona140 m
- 5Cova del PontCollbató, Barcelona67 m
- 6Pou Petit del Torrent FondoCollbató, Barcelona65 m
- 7Avenc del SalnitreCollbató, Barcelona45 m
- 8Pou de la SajolidaCollbató, Barcelona45 m
- 9Pou Gran del Torrent FondoCollbató, Barcelona40 m
- 10Cova GranCollbató, Barcelona38 m
- 11Cova Gran de CabrafigueraCollbató, Barcelona35 m
- 12Avenc DesprèsCollbató, Barcelona30 m
- 13Cova de la CarmeCollbató, Barcelona30 m
- 14Cova del MussolCollbató, Barcelona25 m
- 15Pou de les GarrigosesCollbató, Barcelona25 m
- 16Mentiroses de CollbatóCollbató, Barcelona24 m
- 17Pouetons de l'ArtigaCollbató, Barcelona24 m
- 18Avenc del TibetàCollbató, Barcelona22 m
- 19Pou de la CarboneraCollbató, Barcelona22 m
- 20Avenc-cova C.2 del SalnitreCollbató, Barcelona20 m
The 20 deepest
- 1Pou de Costa DretaCollbató, Barcelona148 m
- 2Coves del SalnitreCollbató, Barcelona43 m
- 3Pou Petit del Torrent FondoCollbató, Barcelona35 m
- 4Pou de la SajolidaCollbató, Barcelona29 m
- 5Avenc VentósCollbató, Barcelona21 m
- 6Pou Gran del Torrent FondoCollbató, Barcelona17 m
- 7Cova FredaCollbató, Barcelona16 m
- 8Avenc-cova C.2 del SalnitreCollbató, Barcelona15 m
- 9Pou de la CarboneraCollbató, Barcelona14 m
- 10Pou de les GarrigosesCollbató, Barcelona13 m
- 11Cova del PontCollbató, Barcelona12 m
- 12Cova Gran de CabrafigueraCollbató, Barcelona12 m
- 13Avenc del SalnitreCollbató, Barcelona11 m
- 14Pouetó de Sant JoanCollbató, Barcelona11 m
- 15Cova DretaCollbató, Barcelona10 m
- 16Pouetó de la PasteretaCollbató, Barcelona9 m
- 17Pou de Santa CaterinaCollbató, Barcelona8 m
- 18Avenc del TibetàCollbató, Barcelona7 m
- 19Avenc DesprèsCollbató, Barcelona7 m
- 20Cova del MussolCollbató, Barcelona7 m
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Source: Espeleoindex (espeleoindex.com), modified. CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/