Known since long ago, since this long foradada at the final part coincided with a rock shelter where the terrace ended; the whole complex was known as Cova Llonga.

During the civil war the brothers Joan, David and Miquel Pàmies, known as els Patacons, took refuge in the cave. Years later relatives and descendants of these reclaimed the historical memory of those and the part corresponding to the foradada became known as cova dels Patacons; the fact of having equipped a spectacular via ferrata with this name that passes between the two caves has also contributed.