les Cambrotes

A set of fissures parallel to the ravine and very close to it, forming channels of greater or lesser depth, though narrow, at the bottom of which different passages open that continue in depth (generally shallow), with a very complicated configuration due to the blocks wedged in the narrowest points, even giving the sensation of being different cavities.

The first fissure we find is straight in an E-W direction, very narrow and shallow, being obstructed at many points by blocks, or else closed at others; this one has a length of 40 metres up to the point where it joins another of similar characteristics and length, which runs obliquely towards the SW and, due to its narrowness, disappears in some areas. From the junction of both fissures the resulting one is wider and forms a shallow channel that runs SW for some 12 metres until reaching a depression about 5 metres in diameter and also 5 in depth, formed by the conjunction of two new branches; one of them has a development of 25 metres towards the W and the other runs NW, then turning SW and joining the previous one.

Following this more easterly sector begins the central stretch of the cavity, formed by a single channel with a width that oscillates between 2 and 4 metres, with a very stony bottom and which progressively gains depth, opening up pits and galleries that allow overcoming 20 metres of vertical drop in some points. This channel runs practically NW for some 20 metres and then turns 90º to the SW until, after some 20 metres more, it comes out to the exterior of the crag. Here begins a new diverticle, deeper, that develops parallel to the crag until it comes out to the exterior again some 20 metres further on, through several windows open at different levels. From here a new progression of the main fissure runs NW, which becomes closed after a little more than 30 metres at the point where the more westerly fissures begin.

The western sector is characterised by a partial descent of the upper plane of the mountain in its part closest to the crag; this balcony is very very cut by a set of narrow fissures of varied directions obstructed at many points by wedged blocks, although internally they are interwoven and take directions different from the exterior ones, constituting the most complicated and deepest part of the cavity.

It should be said that at the foot of the ledge that delimits on its inner side this balcony over the crag, the terminal part of the channel that forms the central sector of the cavity develops, although now it is wider and very shallow. At the point where we had left the description of the central sector of the cavity, a channel begins that with a steep slope runs towards the crag, but on reaching 20 metres of depth from its entrance it turns sharply and goes back with the same inclination, but now along a low-roofed gallery, which becomes horizontal at the terminal part, where three chimneys open connecting with the lower part of the fissure of the central zone described above. This whole sector is very damp and is totally covered by clay and blocks in precarious equilibrium, which, together with the decomposition in which its narrow walls and roofs find themselves, makes exploration a little dangerous.

The upper balcony mentioned above is crossed by a narrow fissure parallel to the crag, which presents different pit mouths (numbered in paint: GES-2, GES-3, GES-4, GES-5 -data from 1980-) although internally they all form a single cavity which is described below: The most easterly entrance offers a vertical of 18 metres and its bottom communicates perpendicularly with the point situated at elevation – 20 of the ramp described above. Here an underground gallery is formed, slightly ascending, that passes below the other mouths of the exterior fissure, with little variation with respect to it, although very masked and divided by an important chaos of blocks, until shortly reaching the entrance of a descending gallery also among blocks, not explored, but which does not seem to offer too much importance.