Horat L5

The only reference we have regarding the location of the pit is that it is in the area of the Pico de Entrescaballos. We have not been able to locate this place name in our cartography, but it does appear in the French Pyrenean cartography covering a stretch of the Val d'Aran. It seems to be the peak that crowns the Serra de Sescorjada (elevation 2446 m) to the N of the Saut deth Pish.

In case anyone has a special interest in locating it, the explorers of the pit provided some Lambert coordinates, which are: X: 475.9 Y: 3055.8. Their conversion does not seem to be too easy a task, and even less so without knowing which of the four or five formats corresponds to these Lambert coordinates.

News in October 2018: Our colleague Josep Guarro (PROTEUS) informs us that he has found a system to convert these Lambert coordinates to UTM and that, applied to other cavities in the area, it has given him a sufficiently satisfactory result, with a difference of less than 50 metres. It should also be borne in mind that in 1974 there were no GPS devices and therefore the coordinates were taken directly from the map. So, we update the record with the coordinates calculated by Josep which, although approximate, may be more reliable than those we gave initially.

He also tells us that in the old Spanish IGN cartography he has been able to locate the place name of Pico de Entrescaballos.