Canyon Caving

• Adventures in the Water
• I cave Ravine
• Mountain Adventures

This activity consists of moving along the course of a river while passing through a cave.

Rivers form in mountains. Rainwater filters into the mountains through the cracks in the limestone soil of the Picos de Europa. The water accumulates inside where it moves until it finds an exit. We know this exit to the outside as the source or birth of a stream or river, depending on the flow it flows.

Now we imagine a river that finds a crack in the mountain and moves through it until it comes out on the opposite side of the mountain.

These conditions occur in the Purón ravine speleo. Purón is a small town located at the foot of the Cuera mountain range in the peaks of Europe and very close to Llanes and the Cantabrian Sea.

Purón is a town of emigrants (Indianos) who returned to their homeland after making their fortune in America. Upon their return they built large and ostentatious mansions, creating an architectural complex called “Indiano Houses.”

Several sources come together to form the river that returns to the interior of the mountain, crossing it from south to north through the Pruneda cave, although the popular name is “Purón Ravine Speleo.”

If it is already exciting to descend a ravine or practice caving in a cave, the combination of both (caving and ravine) reveals the greatest and most extraordinary adventure that the Picos offer us . of Europe.

We will arrive by 4×4 to the winter resorts of Purón where we will equip ourselves. Three hundred meters from the SUV we find a stream that invites us to enter the Pruneda cave. We can clearly see the drosaje (water erosion on the rock) as we move through large rooms with high ceilings, we will see few formations but these will be of great quality: lava flows, flags, stalactites and stalagmites among others.

Don’t be fooled, this is pure adventure and we will have to rappel, climb, swim… and everything inside the cave.

Once outside, the adventure continues since we must climb the north face to the top and descend the south face (more gently) to reach the vehicle.

Two and a half hours in the cave, plus thirty minutes to get back to the SUV. Demanding, exciting, amazing, comforting.

An enjoyment…..

Collaborating agent Viajes Tambre SL.