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Cova Nº1 de l'Ermita

Small cave with a passage of about 24 m in Horta de Sant Joan (Terra Alta), with two low-roofed galleries of 13 and 11 metres.

Horta de Sant Joan • Terra Alta 24m

Small cave with a passage of about 24 m in Horta de Sant Joan (Terra Alta), with two low-roofed galleries of 13 and 11 metres.

Caratteristiche

Località

The cave is located in Horta de Sant Joan, in the comarca of Terra Alta. From the convent of Sant Salvador d'Horta one must take the path that follows the circumvallation route of the mountain of Santa Bàrbara along the S face. Shortly after its start there is a turn-off that leads to the hermitage of Sant Onofre and a little further on to the ruined chapel of Sant Pau. Behind the apse of the chapel is the cave. Approximate coordinates. The mountain of Santa Bàrbara forms part of a series of Oligocene conglomerate reliefs that act as a divide between the massif of the Port and the Ebro Depression.

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  1. Cova Nº1 de l' Ermita

    Quota: 542 m

    40.956851, 0.333961
    UTM 31T (ED 50) 275719 4537593
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Descrizione

Morfologia

From the mouth of the cavity emerge two low-roofed galleries, one 13 metres long and the other 11 metres.

Altri dettagli

It seems that at some point this cavity served as a dwelling or a store.

Storia

Given its situation it seems obvious that it has been known since time immemorial. Legend says that the chapel was the place of retreat of Sant Salvador and where the Virgin Mary appeared to him accompanied by Sant Pau.

The only purely speleological reference we know of is the one collected by members of the SIRE – UEC Sants who visited and surveyed it in March 1981.

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Bibliografia

  1. Estruel, Miquel (1990).- Ruta per conèixer la Terra Alta (Excursions – Escalada – Espeleologia). Vol. II: 119 pp. Centre Excursionista de Gandesa.
  1. SIRE-UEC Sants (1981).- “Contribución al catálogo espeleológico de Tarragona – Horta de Sant Joan, Terra Alta” Boletín de Informacion SIRE (6): 62-79 (3ª época). SIRE – Unió Excursionista de Catalunya – Sants. Barcelona.

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