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Huesca

26 canyons.

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  Anisclo (Middle)

  Part of the Anisclo gorge, cut by the Rio Bellos below cliffs that climb to 1,000 meters, though canyoning here is prohibited under Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park's regulations.

  Escalona, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Balcez (Oscuros del)

  A short run in the Guara massif, fifteen hundred meters with a ten meter rappel as its tallest drop, open most of the year except winter.

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  Consusa (Lower)

  Seventeen rappels link together in quick succession above Revilla, none huge alone but relentless as a set.

  Revilla, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Consusa (Upper)

  The upper run of the Consusa system above Revilla, a full seven hour day covering three quarters of a mile.

  Revilla, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Cuevas de la Reina

  A short, steep drop through the Guatizalema conglomerates that ends with a jump or rappel straight into the Vadiello Reservoir.

  Santa Eulalia la Mayor, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Eriste (Lower)

  Meltwater off Pico Posets carved this limestone drop above Eriste in the Benasque valley, where rappels blend into natural waterslides that shoot you into the pools below.

  Eriste, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Escomentue

  One of four Vadiello zone canyons that Sierra de Guara closes for half the year, seven hours of descent built around a 50 meter rappel.

  Unknown flood
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  Fornocal

  A two car shuttle out of Colungo sets up ten rappels through a tight, meandering slot that passes a spring crusted in tufa before opening into conglomerate.

  Unknown flood
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  Foz de Fago

  A beginner friendly gorge in the Anso valley where rappels under 20 meters mix with easy scrambling and a few optional jumps.

  Anso, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Foz de la Canal

  A 70 meter suspended rappel opens this expert only canyon above Bielsa, followed by a staircase of five more slick drops.

  Bielsa, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Gabieto

  Fourteen rappels split across two distinct pitches above Torla, the lower one noticeably wetter and more scenic once the Grau tributary joins in.

  Torla, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Galantes

  Seven rappels between six and twenty meters thread the Estos valley above Benasque, fed by a river that stays cold and high volume all summer.

  Benasque, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Gloces

  A short slot next to Ordesa park where narrow, winding passages open into natural slides and a sixteen meter rappel.

  Fanlo, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Gorgonchon

  A narrow, cave like corridor barely wider than your shoulders, just two rappels but the second one demands respect.

  Unknown flood
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  Larri (Upper)

  The signature feature is a 54 meter rappel that starts sloping and steepens to vertical right where the water begins, deep in the Pineta valley of Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park.

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  Lazas

  A steep approach from the Pared de Entrenamiento climbing area leads to a sixty meter rappel, the biggest drop on the way down.

  Santa Eulalia la Mayor, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Mascun (Upper)

  Eleven rappels string out across nearly five kilometers below Rodellar, one of the longer technical descents in this stretch of Guara at a full seven hours.

  Rodellar, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Miraval

  An easy, family friendly descent above Tella built around voluntary jumps and rounded pools rather than big rappels, the longest drop here is just ten meters.

  Tella, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Omprio (Upper)

  An eighty meter rappel anchors this long day in upper Omprio, eight to ten hours car to car.

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  Otin

  Eight rappels drop 240 meters through Guara limestone near Bierge, the biggest of them a 45 meter overhanging plunge.

  Bierge, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Palomeras del Flumen

  Only 150 meters of canyon, but Guara rates it vertical 6, aquatic 5: a short slot built almost entirely around one 15 meter rappel into a pool of standing water.

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  Pena Calma

  One 60 meter rappel through limestone carries most of the descent here; RopeWiki logs the whole outing, approach included, at around five hours for barely 200 meters of canyon.

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  Peonera (Lower)

  Four and a half kilometers of swimming, ducking under boulders, and small optional jumps, with no rappels and a technical grade of only 2: it earns its classic status by moving a lot of people through without a single bottleneck to back things up.

  Rodellar, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Pez

  Opens wide, narrows through a passage locals call the Cat's Step, a ledge barely a meter and a half across that gets greasy in high water, then reopens before it ends. Gneiss instead of the limestone common elsewhere in the Pyrenees, and cold enough that a full wetsuit is not optional.

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  Sorrosal

  Twelve hundred meters of flysch canyon that ends, unusually, inside the village of Broto itself: two chained rappels totaling almost 100 meters drop you past the edge of town.

  Broto, Huesca Unknown flood
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  Vero (Upper)

  The upper Vero is as much an open air museum as a canyon: its route passes three rock art shelters, Paleolithic paintings at the Cueva de la Fuente del Trucho, Levantine hunting scenes at Arpan, and schematic figures at Mallata. It runs a circular course out of Alquezar past the ruins of an Islamic era castle and a medieval bridge.

  Alquezar, Huesca Unknown flood