Balma del Sunyer de Baix

It seems that this is the most important worked rock shelter in the Collsacabra. It is 63 m wide, although in the 25 m situated furthest north the shelter has little depth and is not suitable as a dwelling. The maximum depth is 10.5 m. The height is 3.5 m.

In the widest part we find the main construction, formed by a chamber with a flat earth floor, very habitable. The walls are built with care and are quite thick, at some point approaching a metre. The chamber has two doors and a small window. One of the doors is very low, which is why some think that this is due to a great deal of sediment having accumulated above the level of the original floor, a hypothesis we do not share.

Outside the chamber, but right next to it, there is a fissure through which water once gushed (now it seems it no longer does), which filled some stone basins probably used as drinking troughs for livestock.

Once on foot, we will go back about a hundred metres the way we came until we locate a small path that leaves on the left. Very soon the path, which follows the foot of a cliff, begins to pass beside small rock shelters until finally reaching the balma del Sunyer de Baix at its southern end. From the car to the shelter, not even 15 minutes.