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Cigalera del Gireny

Cigalera del Gireny

Ice-filled cavity, 46 m deep in the municipality of Alt Àneu.

Alt Àneu • Pallars Sobirà 95m 46m

Ice-filled cavity, 46 m deep in the municipality of Alt Àneu.

Caratteristiche

Località

Leaving the bend in the track that leads to the Barranc de Moredo, one must go to below the Portiero cabin and climb a long valley in a NW direction, up to the col that separates the serra de Comaviera; from here a path sets off in a S direction that skirts above the previous valley, and once past a small arete, when the path turns SW we will see above us the depression where the ice shaft is.

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  1. Gireny, Cigalera del

    Quota: 2408 m

    42.717846, 1.062630
    UTM 31T (ETRS89) 341365 4731302
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Descrizione

Morfologia

An important entrance 8 metres long by about 2 metres wide that communicates with a shaft of 30 vertical metres and that is normally plugged by a plug of snow and ice. When it can be passed, at its base a ramp begins that leads into a wide chamber with two chimneys. Before entering this chamber, on the right, there is a short ramp gallery that leads to a small shaft of about 8 metres and at its bottom, two impenetrable narrows mark the point of maximum depth (-46). Returning to the base of the entrance shaft and in the opposite direction, there is a short but steep ramp that leads to a small chamber full of blocks and with a chimney of imperceptible height.

Storia

Discovered in the summer of 1977 by the S.S.Plantaurel, who can descend only about 10 metres. The following year, after a long digging out of the ice plug, they manage to reach the final chamber. They assign it 58 metres of depth. In the summer of 1989, a team from the SIS finds the cavity with a considerably low level of snow, they can explore the whole of the French team's section and have access to a short new gallery at the bottom of the entrance shaft. The new survey that they make gives a maximum depth of 46 metres (at the same point that those of the SSP reached).

In one of the first notes (SIS-6), about the explorations in the massif, Joan Pallisé speaks of a cavity of about 60 metres of depth with an important snow plug, but erroneously calls it RC.1, when in reality it should have said RB.1

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Bibliografia

Géraud, Ph. (1978).-'Massif de la Roca Blanca (Province de Lérida-Espagne)' L'Echo des Ténèbres (3): 6-9, S.S.Plantaurel



SIS-CET (1989).-Memòria campanya Roca Blanca 1989. SIS-CE Terrassa (inèdita)



Valles, Jordi de (2008).-'Alta Ribagorça, Pallars Jussà, Pallars Sobirà i Val d'Aran'. Catàleg Espeleològic de Catalunya (vol.1):1-319. EC Gràcia / FCE.



Coordenades, dades i Fotografies facilitades per Joan Pallisé, juny de 2026.

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