Cova de la Gorja del Gaià

We find a large entrance mouth 7.50 metres wide by 7.30 metres high, at the foot of a small cliff. We advance along an ascending gallery full of rubble, disturbed in some places, the effect of digs and treasure searches as Dr. Vilaseca comments in his account. This comfortable gallery continues in a NE direction for about 25 metres; here we find on our left a small irregular window 0.45 x 0.50 metres that leads to a small room; to access it we must descend a r-1.90.

About 5 metres before, if we go along the left wall, we will reach a narrow passage, for now impassable, that communicates with this small room. If we ignore the window, the entrance gallery ends about 6 metres further on; a couple of metres away we find a small pit (r-1.80) with no continuation.

Returning to the previous small room, and past the window, we will find a small pit on the left about 0.40 metres in diameter and 1.80 metres deep; we will descend it, and we find ourselves in a small chamber of little more than 1 metre, with the peculiarity that an impenetrable fissure that we find on the left at ground level communicates with a room that we will describe later and that is at a lower level.

At the back of the small room, on the right we find a narrow section 0.25 metres wide by 0.66 metres high, a selective passage that leads us to the dome of a room where we easily climb down a r-4.70. We find some formations; on the left and on the ceiling there is the aforementioned connection. The room is about 4 x 2 metres; we find some graffiti by young people from the surrounding villages: "Jaume, Galo i Robert" from Queralt 23-5-75. This graffiti confirms that this area, despite not appearing on the SIE topography, was already known previously.

At the base of the drop we find another crawlway 0.70 x 0.27 metres that leads us to a final gallery with many formations; we will descend a r-2.30. We are in a gallery 6 metres long oriented E; at 1.50 metres, a small hole in the ground, through which we will enter with great difficulty (r-1), leads us to the lowest point of the cavity: -5 metres; it is a small lower floor beneath the concretion that covers the floor of the gallery.

The end of the gallery divides into two branches that end in less than 2 metres; they are narrow conduits with many formations. Before entering these branches, if we climb up the flowstone a r+1.65, we will reach an upper gallery beautifully decorated with concretions, along which we can advance about 4 metres more.