Forat de la Convocatòria

The cavity was cleared and explored on 18-06-2011 by members of the GELL – CE Lleida, and David Poca from Bellpuig with a companion. This cavity had been located some years earlier by Lluís Pérez Freixenet and remained pending clearance.

On 9 November 2015, Lluís Pérez Freixinet wrote a comment on the blog “Catalunya subterrània”, where he reported the existence of this cavity, which is pending survey and naming. Unfortunately our friend Lluís, after a long illness, left us in January 2016.

In February 2016 a team from Espeleoíndex, taking advantage of an excursion to the area, descended the first shaft of the cavity; shortly afterwards we got in contact with members of the GELL to find out at what point the exploration of the cavity stood, but they did not seem very up to date on the matter; they told us that around those dates they had done a major clearance at the entrance of a nearby pit, which they named avenc de la Convocatòria, but it turned out that it was the avenc Ocampo, an already known cavity located very close to the new cavity; Espeleoíndex suggested transferring the previous name to the new cavity, which they thought was fine.

On 14 June 2016 it was explored and surveyed by members of the Espeleo Club de Gràcia, who published the cavity record on the blog Catalunya subterrània. Meanwhile, on 25 June 2016, a team from Espeleoíndex, unaware of the previous exploration, surveyed the cavity again, observing that between the visit made in February and the one in June, someone had explored it, since they had installed new “spits” next to the parabolts that were already there.