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Grotte di Font-rubí

Font-rubí (Alt Penedès) brings together 12 caves, all in limestone, with a total length of 128 metres and a maximum depth of 5 metres. Cova de l'Omella, at 21 metres, is the longest and the deepest.

Font-rubí conta 12 grotte catalogate, tra cui 12 grotte. La più lunga è Cova de l'Omella (21 m). La maggior parte delle grotte si trova in calcare.

12 grotte
128 m sviluppo totale
5m profondità massima

Lo sviluppo conta ogni grotta una volta (un sistema conta una volta), e la profondità è quella della grotta più profonda, canyon esclusi.

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The municipality of Font-rubí, in Alt Penedès, has 12 cavities, all catalogued as caves and developed in limestone. Together they total 128 metres of length and reach a maximum depth of 5 metres.

Cova de l'Omella is the longest cavity, at 21 metres, and also the deepest, at 5 metres; it has been known since time immemorial and was visited in 1957 for biospeleological purposes. It is followed in length by Cova de l'Arena and Cova de la Guineu, both 20 metres; Cova de la Guineu is an archaeological site with materials from the Palaeolithic to the Roman period, while Cova de l'Arena is an artificial cavity probably enlarged from some small natural conduit. Other notable cavities are Cova Superior del Joncar, at 13 metres, and Cova del Pastor, at 10 metres, used to keep livestock until the middle of the 20th century.

Among the cavities of shorter length is Cova de Can Manel de l'obaga, at 5 metres, with an entrance 1.9 m high by 5 m wide and an interior chamber.

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