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Avenc del Vent

Avenc del Vent

Small pit 6 metres deep at Santa Maria de Besora, with a 6-metre gallery, a semicircular chamber and lower galleries that reach -6.5 metres.

Santa Maria de Besora • Osona 11m 6m

Small pit 6 metres deep at Santa Maria de Besora, with a 6-metre gallery, a semicircular chamber and lower galleries that reach -6.5 metres.

Caratteristiche

Località

From the C17 road towards Puigcerdà we will enter the village of Sant Quirze de Besora at the traffic-light junction. We must cross over the bridge over the river Ter and at the end of the bridge, turn left onto the BV5227 road. We will cross the railway line and continue for about 7 kms, until we reach Santa Maria de Besora. Almost at the end of the straight stretch that crosses the village, we will find on the left the sign indicating "a Ripoll per Llaés". We must take this narrow cemented track, which is in good enough condition to be driven with a car. You must be alert as the bends are very tight and we constantly find steep ups and downs. After covering 3.5 kms we will reach the coll de Beví; before reaching the col we will find a track on the left, we must follow it, leaving on the left the turn-offs of the Beví Gros and further on that of the Beví Xic; further on the track turns towards the N, on this stretch we will find signs that will lead us to the entrance of the great fissure where the blowholes are located.

The small mouth of the pit is located at the foot of a tree, just at the entrance of the fissure or canyon of the blowholes.

Approximate coordinates.

Mappa

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  1. Avenc del Vent

    Quota: 866 m

    42.139138, 2.234165
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 436713 4665508
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Descrizione

Morfologia

A 2-metre drop places us in a 6-metre gallery that leads into a semicircular chamber with a flat ceiling and a floor full of blocks. Three descending holes, two of them in the chamber and the other in the initial gallery, connect with lower galleries that descend to the bottom of the cavity at -6.5 metres.

Storia

The first records of visits to some of the cavities located inside this great fissure correspond to Dr. Francesc Español, carried out in 1934 for biospeleological purposes.

In 1965 the Grup Espeleològic Terra i Mar (GETIM) of Sabadell explored the avenc dels Tigres; the avenc del TIM, the avenc Besora and the avenc del Vent.

Later the ERE of the CEC between 1977 and 1980 carried out a meticulous inventory of the cavities located in this fissure that would be published in the magazine Espeleòleg nº 34-35.

During 1979 the Centre Espeleològic Cervelló carried out the exploration of various cavities of this fissure, with the aim that they be published in the Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (Borràs-Miñarro-Talavera), this led to giving a new name to some cavities.

We, the espeleoÍndex team, have considered it more appropriate to use the naming of the cavities made by the members of the ERE-CEC, since it is a more complete joint work. This same line regarding naming has been used by Jordi de Valles in the Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (4).

Note biospeleologiche

Coleoptera:
Fam. Catopidae sub. Bathysciinae Speonomus delarouzeei Fairmaire.
23-XI-1975 Bellés-Escolà.
12-VI-1977 Escolà.

Araneids:
Meta Menardi 12-VI-1977 Escolà.
Meta Merianae 17-IV-1977 Escolà.

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Bibliografia

  1. Borràs,J; Miñarro,J.M; Talavera,F.(1980).-”el ripollès la garrotxa i l'alt empordà”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol4):1-296. Ed. Políglota. Barcelona.
  2. Escolà Boada,Oleguer; Inglès Alcon, Antoni; Martinez Rius, Albert.(1983).-”Bufadors de Babí”. Espèleòleg (34-35):223-243. ERE-CE Catalunya.
  3. GE Terra i Mar.(1968).-”Grup d'espeleologia Terra i Mar -Sabadell-” Espeleòleg (7):239-241. ERE.CE Catalunya.
  4. Valles, Jordi de.(2010).-”Al Empordà, Baix Empordà, Gironès, Osona, Pla de l'Estany, Selva”. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (4):1-397. EC Gràcia – FCE.

Fonte: Espeleoindex (espeleoindex.com), modificato. CC BY-NC 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/