Caves of Abella de la Conca

Abella de la Conca, a municipality in the Pallars Jussà, brings together 22 inventoried cavities: 12 pits and 10 caves. The group totals 1170 m of passage and reaches a maximum depth of 83 m. The recorded lithologies are limestone, present in 15 cavities, and conglomerate, in 7.

Among the longest cavities are the Sistema A-4/a-6, with 246 m of passage and 66 m of depth, and two entrances, A-4 and A-6, near the Forat de la Vaca; the Forat dels Coms, a pit 43 m deep explored by the EDES de Manresa in the 70s; les Escletxes, a group of fissures that reach 62 m of depth; the Forat dels Lladres, a residual cave with a 31 m rock bridge; and the Escletxa de la Verdor Salvatge, 81 m of passage, explored and surveyed in May 1988 by the GE Badalona.

As for depth, the Forat dels Lladres reaches 83 m, followed by the Sistema A-4/a-6 with 66 m, les Escletxes with 62 m, the Forat dels Coms with 43 m and the Forat del Gurdem Vell with 35 m, on the southern slope of the Bony de Calama, near the house of the Gurdem Vell.