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Grotte di Santa Maria de Merlès

Santa Maria de Merlès (Berguedà) contains 5 caves, all sandstone shelters, with a total length of 44 metres and a maximum depth of 2 metres. The Balma de Ca l'andaló and the Bauma de les Rocasses are the longest, at 15 metres each.

Santa Maria de Merlès conta 5 grotte catalogate, tra cui 5 grotte. La più lunga è Balma de Ca l'andaló (15 m). La maggior parte delle grotte si trova in arenaria.

5 grotte
44 m sviluppo totale
2m 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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Santa Maria de Merlès, in the Berguedà, has 5 caves, all of them shelters developed in sandstone. Together they total 44 metres in length and reach a maximum depth of 2 metres.

The cavities most notable for their length are the Balma de Ca l'andaló and the Bauma de les Rocasses, both 15 metres. The Balma de Ca l'andaló is 54 metres wide, 4 metres high and 15 metres at its deepest part, and it is the one with the greatest depth in the municipality, at 2 metres. The Bauma de les Rocasses is a large shelter with a waterfall, 100 m wide, 15 m deep and about 7 m high.

Other shelters in the municipality are the Balma de la Font d'en Pere Costa, the Balma de les Pastorelles, 40 m long, 5 m deep and 3 m maximum height beneath a waterfall of the stream, and the Balma d'Escrigues, 45 m long, 4 m deep and 3 m high.

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