Cova de sa Gleda - Camp des Pou
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| Location: | Manacor , Mallorca , Spain | |
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Geographic location: |
39 ° 30 '6 " N , 3 ° 16' 41" E | |
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| Geology: | limestone | |
| Type: | Water cave, stalactite cave | |
| Overall length: | 13,500 meters | |
| Level difference: | 24 meters | |
| Particularities: | Longest underwater cave in Europe | |
The Cova de sa Gleda - Camp des Pou is an underwater cave on the Spanish Balearic island of Mallorca . With a total length of 13.5 kilometers, the cave system is considered the longest known underwater cave in Europe and ranks 14th among the longest underwater caves in the world.
location
The Cova de sa Gleda - Camp des Pou is located near the east coast of Mallorca within the nature reserve Cales Verges de Manacor southwest of Porto Cristo in the municipality of Manacor . The cave system, which is not open to the public, runs parallel to the coast at a distance of about two kilometers, the closest distance to the Mediterranean at Cala Sequer is about one kilometer.
The cave, which is up to 24 meters deep, has two entrances a little less than two kilometers apart. One of the entrances is on Avenc des Camp des Pou , a rock hole next to the road towards Cala Varques . The other entrance is located northwest of Son Josep Nou in a sinkhole on the site of sa Gleda ( 39 ° 29 ′ 53.6 ″ N, 3 ° 16 ′ 32.9 ″ E ).
Name and story
The cave ( Catalan Cova ) is named after the localities of sa Gleda and Camp des Pou , the latter means something like "well field" or "well place". Older maps show the Avenc des Camp des Pou without any connection to the Cova de sa Gleda . The cave system was created by karstification of the limestone during times of lower sea levels (see Eustasia ). It was during these times that the stalactites formed in the cave. The underwater cave was first entered by diving in 1974 by Francesc Ripoll. Since 1997 the Cova de sa Gleda - Camp des Pou has been researched on behalf of the University of the Balearic Islands .
literature
- Francesc Gràcia, Bernat Clamor, Pere Gamundí, Joan J. Fornós, Peter Watkinson: Cavitats Subaquàtiques de la Franja Litoral de Mallorca . In: Francesc Gràcia, Joaquín Ginés, Guillem Xavier Pons, Antelm Ginard, Damià Vicens (eds.): El Carst: Patrimoni Natural de les Illes Balears (Endins 35) . Publicació d'Espeleologia, Federació Balear d'Espeleologia, 2011, ISSN 0211-2515 , Sistema Gleda - Camp des Pou (Manacor), p. 116–119 (Catalan, digitized [PDF; 39 kB ; accessed on July 19, 2016]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bob Gulden, Jim Coke: World longest Underwater Caves. www.caverbob.com, accessed September 22, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Ingo Thor: And follow the arrow at the intersection . Views from the underworld. In: Mallorca newspaper . No. 593 . Palma September 15, 2011, p. 30/31 ( online [accessed September 22, 2011]).
- ↑ Sistema Gleda - Camp des Pou. Kulturaxxl.files.wordpress.com, accessed on September 23, 2011 (Castilian).
Web links
- Cartografia de les zones de les masses d'aigua càrstiques de Mallorca - Location of the cave system in Mallorca, page 9 (Catalan)
- Inmersion en Sa Gleda - short description with map ( Castilian )
- Objetivo conseguido en sa Gleda ( Memento of July 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) - Dive to map the cave system (Castilian)
- Sistema Sa Gleda-Camp des Pou en Desafío Extremo (Cuatro) - Documentation (Castilian)