Cova de la Font Calenta

The cave mouth opens at the end of a dead-end trench. It is almost semicircular in shape, about 80 cm wide by about 60 cm high. You have to enter crawling over the water. Once past the mouth the ceiling rises and we can stand up. It forms a small chamber with maximum dimensions 5×3 m, with the floor completely occupied by water with a depth of the order of 25-30 cm. At the end it turns to the right and continues one metre more until it ends.

The cave is relatively decorated with formations, especially the left wall. Someone placed an iron cross on the right side of the small chamber.

The water comes from an impenetrable hole located on the left side, trickling down a flowstone from mid-height of the wall.

It is a multiple spring that gushes directly from the mountain. There is no spout or any fountain construction. The name “calenta” seems to refer to the fact that the water gushes at a temperature higher than what it is supposed to have according to the latitude and altitude at which it is found. The temperature was measured and gave 17.5 degrees.

6 water outlet points have been counted along a stretch of about 25 m, numbered from “surgència-1” to “surgència-6”. All of them gush from the left side of a kind of ditch or blind trench, a dead end, at the end of which the cave is found, the “surgència-1” gushing from it. (see sketch of the trench).

All in all, a considerable flow of water comes out through the spring which quickly goes down the mountain and circulates through a kind of small channel formed of tufa that the water itself has deposited. The whole path of the water looks cared for, since, it seems, this water will be used for agricultural or livestock uses.

You have to enter crawling over the water. Once past the mouth the ceiling rises and we can stand up.