Grotte di Saldes

The municipality of Saldes, in Berguedà, has 17 inventoried cavities: 6 caves and 11 pits. Together they total 2195 m of passage and reach a maximum depth of 166 m. The recorded lithologies are limestone (15 cavities), travertine (1) and conglomerate (1).

Among the most significant cavities is the Grallera del Carabasser, a pit 166 m deep in the Pedraforca, whose route begins with a 34 m shaft and reaches the -166 level. Esquerdes de Palomera, near the Pleta de la Vila, in the upper part of the Palomera cliff, form an important group of fissures with a complex network of aerial and underground sections, and reach 500 m of passage. The Forats de Sant Telm, at the western end of the Serra d'Ensija, south of Feners, are a tectonic cavity 51 m deep and 316 m long, with five entrances in the main cavity and a sixth independent one.

Other notable cavities are the Forat de les Olles, a pit with 60 m of vertical drop in the Pedraforca with 268 m of passage and a total vertical drop of +8/-52 m; the Graller de Roca Cerdana, 96 m deep, located in 1983, with a 95 m shaft; and the Graller de la Pleta de l'ós, with 70 m of vertical drop, explored for the first time by the ERE del CEC on 29 and 30 June 1968.