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Grotte di Gelida

Gelida, in Alt Penedès, contains 7 cavities: 2 pits and 5 caves, with a total length of 139 metres and a maximum depth of 19 metres. Limestone dominates in 6 cavities and dolomite in 1.

Gelida conta 7 grotte catalogate, tra cui 2 pozzi e 5 grotte. La più lunga è Esquerda del Torrent de Sant Miquel (57 m). La maggior parte delle grotte si trova in calcare.

7 grotte
139 m sviluppo totale
19m 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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Gelida, a municipality in Alt Penedès, has 7 catalogued cavities: 2 pits and 5 caves. Together they total 139 metres of length and reach a maximum depth of 19 metres. As for the lithology, 6 cavities develop in limestone and 1 in dolomite.

The longest cavity is the Esquerda del Torrent de Sant Miquel, at 57 metres, which is also the deepest, at -19 metres. Other notable cavities are the Cova a del Castell, 25 metres long with a height difference of +9 metres, and the Avenc de l'Ivan, 24 metres long and 18 metres deep, discovered in the winter of 2006 by members of the EspeleoCorb and GES Terrassa.

Among the less developed cavities are the Cova de la Cabra, 12 metres, located about 60 metres downstream of the Esquerda del Torrent de Sant Miquel or Forat del Vent, and the Cova C del Castell, 9 metres, long known and explored in 1963.

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