Cova de Genera

Known since time immemorial. In the 1860 census a series of cavities are cited that at that time were considered as pens or perhaps even as dwellings. Among them is cited the one of en Geneva or Genera.

Font i Sagué, in his catalogue (1897), records the Cova de Genera with data provided by the CEC delegate in Tremp in the questionnaire on cavities that he sent to all his delegates. Nothing is said about the rest of the neighbouring cavities.

With the number 272, Font catalogues it as: Cova de Genera.- It is about 30 metres deep. Tradition says that in this cave the cristiandat has never been finished. Era habitada until recently. Near the middle of its interior there is a small shaft almost full of human bones. Dr. Antoni Mir, a doctor from Tarragona, took away a notable skull. (sic)

It is not, however, until June 1965 that two members of the ERE-CEC carry out the first speleological exploration and make a careful study of it. Despite being very well known by the people of Gurp, nobody had ever ventured further in than the twilight zone. They confirm what Font says about the shaft, which by then was only 3 m deep and about which the villagers tell them that they had always heard it said that it was filled with many corpses thrown by the 'Moors' who had a great exterminating activity. They do not mention the presence of any skeletal remains.

Since that exploration it has been catalogued, we believe erroneously, as Cova d'en Janera. We consider it more correct to recover the name of Genera.