Avenc de la Falconera

We do not know exactly when the first exploration of this cavity was made. Borràs (1974) attributes it to N. Font i Sagué, but we have not found any written record that can corroborate this. Font, in his Catàlech (1897), does mention a series of pits that he says had been explored by the miners who worked on the works of la Falconera and among them he cites an Avenc de la Falconera attributing to it 42 metres of depth, but we do not believe it is the cavity that concerns us; it could be the one later known as Avenc de la Riera de la Falconera. Faura himself, in his Recull (1909), stops cataloguing it and assigns the figure of 42 metres to la Falconera itself, as if he wanted to say that it is the Pou de l'Eusebi.

F. Termes includes it in his list of cavities of the Garraf (Speleon, 1952) and cites as bibliographical references different works by Font, Faura and d'Amat, but in none of them is this pit mentioned. Only the reference of the first edition of the map of Editorial Alpina (1949) is certain, in which N. Llopis cites it, we believe, for the first time, although we have no data on when it was explored. It also does not appear in the activities book of the GES – CMB until the year 1972.

We do have news of an exploration made by members of the SES – Puigmal around 1958 and we should even have a survey (which for the moment we cannot find) made possibly by Emili Sabaté.

It seems, however, quite probable that during the works of the project for the conduction of the waters of la Falconera (late 19th century), some of the well-sinkers might have explored it.