Cova de l'Aleu

Cavity with 4 known entrances; its formation is related to a large collapse of part of lo cingle Blanc, its galleries having formed at the expense of these large blocks. To access the interior of the cave we will preferably use the mouth marked as number 4, which is the one we find furthest W. Coming from the Cova Fumada the first mouths we find are 2 and 3. These are two openings of 0.65x0.65 metres and 0.41x1.25 metres respectively and they connect at different heights with the Sala Gran by means of a P-3 and a P-5.50. Mouth number 1 has two openings, currently impassable, and is perched towards the E. Mouth 4 is 0.80x0.40 and through it we enter a descending gallery that after 6 metres turns right; this gallery continues to the Sala Gran, descending by a kind of steps made artificially in the ground. On our right we leave a low-roofed chamber about 4 metres long. On reaching the Sala Gran, on the right we find another room also with a low roof of 5x2x1.20 metres. The Sala Gran is the most spacious place in the whole cavity with its 10 metres of height and approximately 6x6 width. This spot has natural light coming from entrances 2 and 3. Going in an E direction we will find a drop beside a large block and, after overcoming an r-1, we continue along a gallery 3.50 metres wide by 9.50 metres high for about ten metres. Here the gallery forks; if we continue to the left in an ascending direction, after 6 metres it forks again, the crawl on the left ends after 2.50 metres, and the one on the right, after 2.20 metres, brings us through a window to the continuation of the main gallery at a higher level. Here we will descend an r-1.10 and climb up two exposed projections until reaching the base of the small shaft that gives onto mouth number 1 (E+2.40), half covered by unstable blocks. If we return to the first fork, we will go by the right-hand way in a SE direction, descending about 5 metres and finding an r-0.50. We have reached the Sala dels graffitis, the end point of the explorations of occasional visitors, where the oldest inscription dates from 1911. Three metres further on we find a small shaft down which we will descend 2.80 metres, reaching the total depth of -18 metres and finding a very narrow gallery that could be the one connecting with the terminal part of the Cova Fumada.