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Caves of Senterada

Municipality of Senterada, in the Pallars Jussà, with 5 catalogued cavities: 4 caves and 1 pit. The total length is 191 metres and the maximum depth is 30 metres. The Cova de la Font de Lluçà, at 95 metres, is the longest.

Senterada has 5 catalogued caves, including 1 potholes and 4 caves. The longest is Cova de la Font de Lluçà (95m) and the deepest is Forat dels Mollons (30m). Most caves are found in limestone.

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191mtotal length
30mmax depth

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

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Senterada, a municipality in the Pallars Jussà, has 5 catalogued cavities: 4 caves and 1 pit. The total length is 191 metres and the maximum depth is 30 metres. The Cova de la Font de Lluçà, with 95 metres of length, is the longest; it is a spring of significant flow with +9 metres of positive drop. The Forat dels Mollons, in the serra de Peracalç, is the deepest pit, with 30 metres of depth, its entrance at the Mollons, a 20-metre shaft and a final ramp down to -30.5 metres.

Other cavities are the Cova del Cingle, with 30 metres of length in the serra de Sant Gervàs, explored on 26 September 1971; the Cova dels Tritons, with archaeological remains, in front of the cova de les Llenes, on the left bank of the river Flamisell; and the Cova del Pushok, a small cova penjada (hanging cave) on the crag of the Estret del Congost, with 5 metres of length. As for lithologies, there are 3 cavities in limestone and 2 in conglomerate.

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The 20 longest

  1. 1Cova de la Font de LluçàSenterada, Lleida95 m
  2. 2Forat dels MollonsSenterada, Lleida42 m
  3. 3Cova del CingleSenterada, Lleida30 m
  4. 4Cova dels TritonsSenterada, Lleida19 m
  5. 5Cova del PushokSenterada, Lleida5 m
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The 20 deepest

  1. 1Forat dels MollonsSenterada, Lleida30 m
  2. 2Cova del CingleSenterada, Lleida10 m
  3. 3Cova de la Font de LluçàSenterada, Lleida9 m
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