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What a shame that the Fluvià river gives. Not a drop of water falls when passing through the Vall d’en Bas because of the persistent drought in a winter where you can even see the well-bloomed daffodils, as seen in the Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia.
The Fluvià river rises in the Collsacabra mountains and flows into the Mediterranean, in the Empordà marshes, near Sant Pere Pescador, after traveling 70 km through the Catalan regions of Garrotxa and Alt Empordà.
The mouth of the Fluvià or Gola del Fluvià river changes its landscape due to sea storms and river flooding. But the latter has not occurred for a long time due to the drought. The little water flow it had is a reflection of the lack of rain.
The Vall d’en Bas is surrounded by mountain ranges and steep ridges such as those of Cabrera dels Llancers, Freixaneda or Puigsacalm, as well as meadows and forests of beech, holm oak and oak trees.
Crossed by a multitude of rivers and streams that pour their waters into the Fluvià River, it has one of the most fertile soils in all of Catalonia, even in times of great drought.
The Vall d’en Bas also has a rich historical heritage. Sant Miquel de Castelló, for example, is a hermitage located on a buttress of the Serrat de Sant Miquel within the Sierra de Llancers, in the last ridges of the northeast of Collsacabra.
