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Avenc M-10

A 5-metre-deep escletxa at Montcortès (Baix Pallars), with 14 metres of passage and maximum depth on the NW side.

Baix Pallars • Pallars Sobirà 19m 5m

A 5-metre-deep escletxa at Montcortès (Baix Pallars), with 14 metres of passage and maximum depth on the NW side.

Caratteristiche

Località

The Escletxa is located at Montcortès, in the municipality of Baix Pallars. From Senterada one must head to the Pobleta de Bellveí, where a narrow road is taken to the right as far as the estany de Montcortès. From the E side of the estany an asphalted track leads off towards Peracalç; on reaching the junction with the track that goes to Montsor, this is taken to the right, suitable for any vehicle, and after 1.7 kilometres one arrives at the flat area where the cavities are found. This flat area lies to the left of the track and the spot is easily recognised because the track makes a sharp bend to the right and also to the right there is a large temporary pool of water used by animals for drinking.

The identification of the cavities is rather complicated, since at present (2011) only the painted name is preserved on the M-1 and M-11; from the rest of the cavities any sign identifying them has disappeared, and the GEB gives no information about any kind of guideline followed in order to identify them. Therefore, except for these two cavities, it is unknown which coordinates correctly correspond to each of them; it has been considered appropriate to mark the rest of the cavities with coordinates situated between M-1 and M-11, bearing in mind that except for the M-8, which is located a couple of bends before reaching the flat area, the rest of the cavities are situated within a radius of less than 200 metres from this indicated point. In some cases the coordinates correspond to the entrances of holes, but it is unknown whether they correspond to the same ones. Approximate coordinates.

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Ingressi

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  1. M-10, Avenc

    Quota: 1358 m

    42.315858, 0.978950
    UTM 31T (ED 50) 333542 4687028
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Descrizione

Morfologia

Escletxa with 5 metres of vertical drop; the base of 14 metres of passage reaches its maximum depth on the NW side.

Storia

On 26 to 30 March 1970 a team from the SIE of the CEA explored the Forat de Montcortès (98 metres) and the Forat del Vicenç (-10 metres). Later, on 6 and 7 March 1976, another SIE team in which some of the members of the previous team took part explored in the serra de Peracalç, between the estany de Montcortès and Peracalç, three cavities of (-30 metres, -11 metres and -7 metres) depth respectively, which it named Forats de la Grata no. 1, 2 and 3; this information remains in the SIE archives but nothing about it is ever published. Very probably they correspond to some of the many holes explored by the GEB in this sector.

In 1980 the GEB began a series of explorations on this flat area that lies to the N of the roca de Perauba and to the W of the dolmen de Perauba and which the GEB calls the pla del campament because it is the spot where they set up camp during the explorations; these would last until 1988. Later they returned in September 1994, in July 1995, when they accompanied the archaeologists from the department of history of pre-capitalist societies and social anthropology of the UAB, and they return again in November 1999. In the course of these years, the forest mass has grown considerably, which also complicates the location of the cavities.

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Bibliografia

  1. Porcel Caro,Enric.(1990).-”Exploracions a la Serra Magdalena ”. Cavernas (22):49-57. GE Badalona.
  2. Porcel Caro,Enric; Miret Pérez, Francesc.(2008).-”Cavernes d'interès arqueològic”. Cavernas (27):58-63. GE Badalona.
  3. Navarro,J.(1971).-”Relación cronológica de las exploraciones realizadas por miembros de la SIE en 1970”. EspeleoSie (10):75-87. SIE – CE Àliga. Barcelona.

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