Caves of La Vall d'en Bas

La Vall d'en Bas, a municipality in the Garrotxa, has 8 inventoried cavities: 7 caves and 1 pit. The total length adds up to 2351 m and the maximum vertical drop reached is 40 m. All the cavities develop in sandstone.

The longest cavity is les Correjades, at 1835 m, a group of large fissures on the baga de Freixeneda formed by three correjades —de Baix, del Mig and de Dalt— separated by the Pla del Campament and the Prat de Dalt. It is followed by the Cavorca de Falgars, at 251 m, the Cova de la Carrera, at 134 m, the Cova de l'Encantat, at 63 m, and the Cova del Xiquillo, at 60 m.

As for the vertical drop, the Cavorca de Falgars is the deepest, at 40 m; it was explored and surveyed by the Grup d'Espeleologia de Badalona between May 1994 and January 1995. Other vertical drops are the 18 m of les Correjades, the 17 m of the Cova de la Carrera, the 10 m of the Cova del Xiquillo and the 6 m of the Cova de l'Encantat.