Espluga dels Maquis

The ledge section forms a vestibule area, a kind of rock shelter that gives access to the true cavity.

In the first section, 8 metres long by 6 wide, three large beds are placed.

Continuing from this chamber follows a gallery 10 metres long where one must crouch and even crawl on all fours. This section ends in some small diverticula with signs of pooling, but before that on the floor we find a dug-out hiding place protected for a purpose unknown to us.

The small diverticula show signs of pooling.

To gain access one must climb free until resting on a fragment of rope hung with knots (May 2017). Then a doubled rope is rigged which serves to ascend with ascenders and allows the last person to descend with a "figure eight" and retrieve the rope. We estimate the vertical drop to be about 15 metres.

In this section we find remains of campfires and a curious rusty spoon stuck into the wall.

Access to the Espluga is protected by an artificial wall that acts as a windscreen.

The assembly of the beds is isolated from the ground by pedestals of rocks; on these rest the larger-diameter trunks and above it all a mesh of branches, twigs and leaf litter.

On the ceiling there are some fitted trunks that we suppose are useful for hanging some element.

Signs of habitation appear everywhere, and significantly in the remains of cans and bottles. We see ceilings blackened by the smoke of the fire and utensils for cooking and/or warming oneself.