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Forat de Sant Ou

Forat de Sant Ou

A 67-metre-deep pit in Gombrèn, Ripollès, with two shafts, explored by Norbert Font i Sagué in 1901.

Gombrèn • Ripollès 95m 67m

A 67-metre-deep pit in Gombrèn, Ripollès, with two shafts, explored by Norbert Font i Sagué in 1901.

Caratteristiche

Località

About 75 metres above the les Planelles forest refuge. Follow the path of the Santuari de Montgrony that heads towards the coll del Mancillo and passes a few metres from the cavity. The approach time is less than 30 minutes.

Mappa

Ingressi

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  1. Sant Ou, Forat de

    Quota: 1502 m

    42.269340, 2.090800
    UTM 31T (ED 50) 425114 4680296
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Descrizione

Morfologia

The cavity consists of two shafts. The first has an approximately elliptical section of about 7 metres and a depth of -31 metres. At -22 metres, by means of a pendulum to the right we can reach a small chamber called el Pilar. When we have descended about 27 metres, a large portal opens up that gives rise to a chamber with a fus of considerable height. The floor is covered with clastic materials and on a steep slope (37º), at the end of this we find ourselves in the second and last shaft. This is of smaller proportions than the previous one, with -26 metres of depth that place the bottom of the cavity at -67.7 metres. At about -17 metres of descending this shaft, we find a niche of reduced dimensions, at the end of which opens a chimney which communicates with the vault of the lateral fus found at the bottom of the cavity.

Storia

The first exploration was carried out by Mossèn Norbert Font i Sagué on 6 August 1901. Font exaggeratedly assigned it a depth of between 95 and 100 metres. During the eve of the exploration and in the course of it, more than 300 people gathered, curious to see the event.

Previously, at the beginning of the century, Font i Sagué, finding himself as an assistant to the canon Almera, had himself accompanied to the Forat de Sant Ou and sounded it.

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Bibliografia

  1. Font i Sagué, Norbert.(1903).-”Sota Terra. L'exploració de l'avench de Sant-Hou (Montgrony)”. Butlletí del Centre Excursionista de Catalunya (97):41-55; (98):66-75. CEC. Barcelona.
  2. Escolà,O.;Senent,J.(1964).-”Estudio del Forat de Sant Hou”. Speleon (15):61-74.Universidad de Oviedo.
  3. Juderias, Joan Carles.(1993).-”Avenc de Sant Hou” EspeleoSie (32):15-16. SIE-CE Àliga.Barcelona.

  • Coordenades i fotos 'JNC' facilitades per Jordi Navarro, (Centre Excursionista de Castellar del Vallès).

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