Portal de Jumilla
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The site corresponds to a cavity that was exploited as a burial place in eneolítica period, III millennium.
C., or in the Bronze Age, II millennium BC.
C.
The Ministry of Culture and Spokesman has declared Billed by its cultural relevance archaeological site Portichuelo Cave in Jumilla.
The resolution, published today in the Official Gazette of the Region of Murcia (BORM), reports that have completed the mandatory procedures without having made any allegation against protect this space.
The general director of Cultural Heritage, Maria Comas, said: "This resolution will allow the deposit of Portichuelo is from now properly preserved and protected, preserving it for future generations and avoiding their destruction or damage, according to the law of Cultural Heritage of the region ".
Portichuelo Cave is located in the southwest sector of the Sierra de la Fuente, about 3.5 kilometers north of the main town of Jumilla.
The site corresponds to a cave that was exploited as a burial place in eneolítica time (III millennium BC.) Or in the Bronze Age (II millennium BC.), In connection with an occupational context defined therein physiographic unit: a town called El Portichuelo, located about 150 meters northwest, or Covachas burial of the Sierra de la Fuente, located about 200 meters northeast.
It is a cave (zone 1, according to the resolution) of rounded shape, measuring 0.9 m long and 0.7 m wide and open to the northwest, toward the ravine that divides into two halves the Sierra from the source.
Next to the entrance, descending from the inlet, a large accumulation of land, which was a landing where a group of cavers Hineni Group of Jumilla found human bone fragments is observed.
Around the cave also it documents a second sector (zone 2) marking an environment of possible occurrence of residues and encompasses the western half of the relief where the shelter is located.
The delimitation established protection in this resolution integrates therefore the cave where it was found the burial site and its immediate area, being thus protected all material elements and stratigraphic contexts that make up the site, as well as the visual and environmental space that any intervention could lead to an alteration of the conditions of good.
From now on, any intervention intended to be made in the Cave of Portichuelo or its vicinity must be notified and approved in advance by the Generalde Address Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Spokesman, as happens with declared assets of cultural interest ( BIC) and property inventoried.
Comas recalled that "the cultural heritage of the Region of Murcia is one of our main identity and, therefore, from the regional government work so that the assets that comprise it, which constitute a heritage of inestimable value, are properly protected, preserved and valued, and also become an attraction for all those who visit us. "
All murcianos he added, "we must be aware and be proud of the great cultural richness of our region is, ultimately, our own history."
Source: CARM
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