Bauma Gran de Coma Oriola

Large shelter about 8 metres wide, 4 high and almost 8 metres deep. In the ceiling of the end of the concavity a chimney originates that rises at least a couple of metres.

All the caves and cracks located in the area are residual cavities, probably vestiges of other climatic circumstances. It is undeniable that the valley bears the imprint of a glacial past, and even today the function of ice widening the fracturing structure is responsible for small cavities and for the great extent of these fragmentation screes.

The original physiognomy of the Coma Oriola (according to the ICGC: Comaoriola), has been profoundly altered by the imprint of the ski station, since a piste runs through this valley.

In summer and therefore out of season, the excavators, concrete mixers, etc. have extraordinarily transformed the bed of the basin, widening it and modifying its margins, causing original vegetation and soils to disappear, burying channels...