Cova dels Ermitans

Cave with 287 m of passage at the Farell (Caldes de Montbui), in the Serrat d'en Vila, beside the torrent del Farell. Three entrances, total elevation difference of 28.7 m (+9.3; -19.4) and 286.8 m surveyed.

Caldes de Montbui • Vallès Oriental 287m 29m

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Cova dels Ermitans

Caldes de Montbui · Vallès Oriental

Sviluppo: 287 m · Profondità: 29 m

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Caratteristiche

Tipo: Grotta
Comune: Caldes de Montbui
Regione: Vallès Oriental
Unità: Farell, el - Cingles de Gallifa
Sviluppo: 287 metri
Profondità: 29 metri
Unità principale: Serralada Prelitoral
Litologia: Calcare
Aggiornato su EspeleoÍndex: 17 novembre 2012

Località

In the Serrat d'en Vila, beside the torrent del Farell.

Along the BV-1243 road from Caldes de Montbui to Sant Sebastià de Montmajor, before km. 7 and on the right, there is a track (locked with a padlock) that climbs towards an urbanisation. Following this track, one must find a path well signposted with signs and green paint marks. Even the small step down towards the cave is equipped with via ferrata rungs.

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Cova dels Ermitans
Quota: 520 m
41.661989, 2.142249
UTM 31T (ED 50) 428682 4612808
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Descrizione

Morfologia

The cave has three entrances to the outside, two of them located at the upper level and the third at the middle level, this being the normal access.

The whole cavity is structured along a strongly inclined fracture, and large blocks wedged between the walls create different routes which the authors of the survey group into four levels. The total elevation difference is 28.7 metres (+9.3; -19.4) and the surveyed passage reaches 286.8 metres.

Concrezioni

No reconstructive forms are observed.

Progressione

The whole complex is a clastic pile-up that must be overcome with climbs of various degrees of difficulty. At some point the use of a rope is not amiss.

Storia

Known for a long time by the people of Caldes, especially hunters. Having learned of its existence, Joan Pallarès-Personat made several attempts to locate it, but it was not until November 1974 that, accompanied by Agustí Vila of the Escoltes de Caldes, they were able to make a first reconnaissance (J. Pallarès, X. Bellés and T. Cuñé) mainly for biospeleological purposes. On a new visit the following month, they carried out a topographic sketch of the cave, calculating a passage of about 70 metres.

It is not until 1999 that members of the Col·lectiu Escunhau (Espeleo Grup de l'Hospitalet and GIEG – Agrupació Excursionista de Granollers) visit the cavity again and observe the complexity of the cave, due to the accumulation of blocks forming different floors and the existence of two more entrances. After laborious and complicated surveying they manage to fix the total passage at 287 metres.

Note biospeleologiche

Coleoptera: Speonomus urgellesi Español (Captured by Bellés, Cuñé, Pallarès on 17-11-1974 and 20-12-1974). Species discovered by Isidre González Urgellés in 1963 at the avenc de les Aranyes (Montnegre).