<< Text Pages >> La Cova Gran - Cave or Rock Shelter in Spain in Cataluña
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Natural PlacesSite Name: La Cova GranCountry: Spain
NOTE: This site is 5.635 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Cataluña Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Village: Les Avellanes-Santa Linya
Latitude: 41.925947N Longitude: 0.811844E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Cave or Rock Shelter in Cataluña. La Cova Gran is located in the pre-Pyrenees mountain ranges, near to the town of Balaguer. The access to the archaeological site is easy, but the landscape is quite rugged and wild, with deep ravines and sheer cliffs.
The vegetation is a good example of Mediterranean forest, with deciduous trees. The fauna is typical of the Mediterranean ecosystem (wild boar, fox, roe deer). The site is also located in a natural refuge for aquatic and migratory birds. Bird watching in the area is excellent.
This impressive rock-shelter is located in the pre-Pyrenean sierras, in a secondary valley of the Noguera-Pallaresa river, that allows easy access to the Ebro basin and to the Pyrenean mountains.
The surrounding landscape is quite rugged with deep ravines and sheer cliffs. The settlement is placed in the middle of a small, short and narrow canyon that was occupied repeatedly by Tardiglacial hunter-gatherers.
Source: UAB.es
Note: Archaeologists find clues to the appearance of modern humans
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