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Cova dels Carrers de Lluçars

Cova dels Carrers de Lluçars

A group of rock shelters in the barranc de la Tartera, near Tòrrec (Vilanova de Meià), with several passages and remains of constructions.

Vilanova de Meià • Noguera 10m

A group of rock shelters in the barranc de la Tartera, near Tòrrec (Vilanova de Meià), with several passages and remains of constructions.

Caratteristiche

Località

Located at Tòrrec, belonging to the municipality of Vilanova de Meià, at the point where the weighbridge is found; just opposite, a track comes out; shortly after we will find a fork, and we must follow the left one. After a little more than half a kilometre, the track makes a series of bends and descends to the barranc de les Planes; the track continues parallel to the ravine, going back up it. Just after crossing it, we will follow a path on the left that follows the ravine along the other bank, but now in the same direction as the water flow. We go around a rocky spur where some water pipes are visible and descend towards the barranc de Fontfreda following the path on the left; from this point the balma de la Vansa can be seen. We cross the ravine and follow the path that leads to the barranc de la Tartera, we cross it and continue towards the S, where a small trail will take us to a cairn located on the ridge that forms the divide with the barranc de la Coveta. We go back up along the ridge in a N direction, until reaching the tip of the cliff; we will continue to the right along the base of the cliff on the right hydrographic slope of the barranc de la Tartera; the small trail first descends, then climbs back up until reaching the rock shelters.

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  1. Cova dels Carrers de Lluçars

    Quota: 529 m

    41.991008, 1.070836
    UTM 31T (ED 50) 340298 4650780
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Descrizione

Morfologia

It is a rock-shelter area with several passages; in some of them we find remains of constructions. In the central part, which is wider, there are remains (basically the foundations) of what appears to be a defensive wall. Entering the rock shelter from the S, we first find two parallel passages about 8 metres long and 1.30 metres high, joined to each other by a window. A few metres further on we find a space in the rock shelter with remains of walls about 24 metres wide and 9.46 metres deep, while the height varies from 5.51 metres to 2.28 metres. A few metres further on one can reach a higher level where we find a small passage 3.90 metres deep and 4.50 metres below this one; there we find the entrance to a dwelling about 9 metres wide by 8.43 metres deep, divided by a wall. This is the darkest passage and it is quite full of earth and excrement from the flocks of sheep that have used it. The group of rock shelters does not reach one hundred metres in width, while the deepest point is 9.46 metres.

Storia

Although known and inhabited since ancient times (contemporary with those of “La Vansa”), at a speleological level the first report we have is of the biospeleological exploration carried out by F. Español and F. de Villalta on 12 April 1936. It seems that the reason why a single name unifies the different speleological phenomena is the existence of a strong defensive wall, today almost ruined, which ran parallel to the cliff, at a distance of one to two metres, forming a kind of street in front of the dwellings.

Note biospeleologiche

Speonomus (Speonomites) Velox Jeann Español-Villalta 12-4-1936

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Bibliografia

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