Map of the sport climbing, rock climbing and bouldering areas around Lleida

Map of the rock climbing, sport climbing and bouldering areas around Lleida

Lleida rock climbing

The area to the north of Lleida has the highest concentration of rock climbing areas in Catalunya, and such is recognised as one of the finest sport climbing venues in Europe. There is something for everyone from bouldering, hard single pitch routes to multi-pitch classics.

Rock climbing and bouldering areas around Lleida
No	Crag Name	Type of Climbing	Type of Rock	Best season
No	Crag Name	Type of Climbing	Type of Rock	Spr	Sum	Aut	Win
1	Cavallers	Sport & Trad	Granite	No	Yes	Yes	No
2	Collegats	Sport & Trad	Limestone & Conglomerate	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
3	Tres Pont	Sport	Limestone	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
4	Peries	Sport	Limestone	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
5	Coll de Natgo	Sport	Limestone & Conglomerate	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
6	Abella de la Conca	Sport	Limestone	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
7	Oliana	Sport	Limestone	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
8	Vilanova de Meia	Sport	Limestone	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
9	Terradets	Sport	Limestone	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
10	Ager	Sport	Limestone	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
11	La Pauta	Sport	Limestone	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
12	Alos de Balaguer	Sport	Limestone	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
13	Santa Linya	Sport	Limestone	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
14	Tartareu	Sport	Limestone	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
15	Santa Ana	Sport	Limestone	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
16	Os de Balaguer	Sport	Limestone	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
17	St. Llorenc de Montgai	Sport	Limestone	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
18	Camarasa	Sport	Limestone	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
19	Cubells	Sport	Limestone	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
20	La Cova de Juncosa	Sport	Sandstone & Conglomerate	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
21	El Cogul	Bouldering	Sandstone	No	No	Yes	Yes
22	Cervia	Bouldering	Sandstone	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
23	Belianes-Malda	Bouldering	Sandstone	Yes	No	Yes	Yes

The above information has mainly been extracted from the guidebook called “Lleida Climbs” that can be bought from our shop. The Lleida area includes the following excellent crags.

Terradets is a stunning limestone gorge and is dominated by the 500m high La Paret de les Bagasses buttress, which offers many classic bolted multi-pitch routes. However the Paret de les Bruixes is the test piece crag, with its overhanging bowl of limestone rock providing many tufas and juggy roofs, producing numerous quality routes at F7 and above.

Collegats is another spectacular limestone and conglomerate gorge that provides some impressive walls up to 350m long. Whilst there are some single-pitch sports routes here, the majority of the routes are Trad multi-pitch adventures, requiring nuts and cams for protection.

Vilanova de Meia provides some of the finest bolted mult-pitch climbing in Catalunya, that is up to 200m long.

Immediately north of Lleida are a number of limestone crags offering mainly single pitch sports routes such as Camarasa, Santa Linya and Tartareu.

Cavallers is situated in the foothills of the Pyrenees and as such offers something different to the other climbing areas around Lleida – mountain granite. The climbing here ranges from delicate slabs to steep walls, across a wide range of grades. Interestingly all the single pitch routes are well bolted, though the multi-pitch routes vary from fully bolted, to some limited in-situ gear, or completely Trad (requiring nuts and cams), and can be many 100’s of metres long.

The bouldering at El Cogul, near Lleida is one of the largest bouldering areas in Spain. These sandstone boulders offer a wide range of grades with generally good landings.

To view a larger photograph showing the variety of rock climbing and sports climbing to be found around Lleida, please click on the thumbnail images.