Escletxa de les Rovires Nº2

In November 1948, a group of members (Llopis, Thomas, Montoriol, Termes and Vicens) of the recently created GES of the Club Muntanyenc Barcelonès visited a series of cavities in Pallejà that they generically called Forats de la Presa d'Aigua, but they give no further detail. From the GES activity sheet we know more, since the name of each of the visited cavities and their development are detailed, namely: Forat Petit (-6 m); Forat Pla (10 m); Forat del Caos (-14 m); Avenc Estret (-10 m) and Avenc del Diable (-25 m). Nothing more is known, but we suspect that one of them, (perhaps the Avenc del Dimoni) is the one we now know as Escletxa nº 2 de les Rovires.

For years there is no further news, although occasionally notes of activities from some speleological groups appear that mention the Forats de la Presa d'Aigua. They do not know when, someone renamed the cavity as Cova Meva, the graffiti at the entrance is still preserved.

In 1974, Joan Pallarès, Xavier Bellés and other companions begin to catalogue the cavities of this sector of Pallejà and which years later would be published in Gours-10. It is then that the name Escletxes de les Rovires appears.

In 1989 Antonio Asensio and Pedro Valdepeñas begin to review all the known cavities, surveying them again and documenting others that were unpublished.