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Caves of Sant Llorenç de Morunys

A municipality in the Solsonès with 4 cavities, all caves, totalling 47 metres of passage and reaching a maximum depth of 5 metres. The Balma del Goter, at 15 metres, stands out.

Sant Llorenç de Morunys has 4 catalogued caves, including 0 potholes and 4 caves. The longest is Balma del Goter (15m) and the deepest is Balma de Sant Llorenç (5m). Most caves are found in conglomerate.

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47mtotal length
5mmax 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 Llorenç de Morunys is a municipality in the Solsonès with 4 recorded cavities, all of them caves. Together they total 47 metres of passage and reach a maximum depth of 5 metres. All the cavities develop in conglomerates.

Among the most notable cavities are the Balma del Goter, with 15 metres of passage at the Tossal de Lord, with walls blackened by fire and well protected from the wind, and the Balmes del Cingle de Lord, a group of small caves and rock shelters beneath the sanctuary of Lord made up of 8 cavities that use the same bedding plane. The Balma dels Forats, also at the Tossal de Lord, has 12 metres of passage and four holes averaging two metres deep by half a metre high. The Balma de Sant Llorenç, with 5 metres of passage, has a porch 10 metres wide and 4 metres high, and was explored in 1993.

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The 20 longest

  1. 1Balma del GoterSant Llorenç de Morunys, Lleida15 m
  2. 2Balmes del Cingle de LordSant Llorenç de Morunys, Lleida15 m
  3. 3Balma dels ForatsSant Llorenç de Morunys, Lleida12 m
  4. 4Balma de Sant LlorençSant Llorenç de Morunys, Lleida5 m
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The 20 deepest

  1. 1Balma de Sant LlorençSant Llorenç de Morunys, Lleida5 m
  2. 2Balma dels ForatsSant Llorenç de Morunys, Lleida1 m
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