10) Barrancs

The Barrancs gully, oriented north-east, is an example of a well-structured gully. During the Little Ice Age it reached a length of 1,340 m, practically joining the Tempestats glacier, which at the beginning of the 20th century was 835 m long. Its 57-hectare extension made it the 10th largest glacier in the Pyrenees. In 1986 it occupied areas outside the circle, with a length of 500 m, under the summit of Aneto.

Despite the fact that the Barrancs glacial gel mass is the highest in the Serralada after Aneto, in 2006 it lost its activity and was declared a glacier in 2021. At present, the sum of its two fragments maintains it as the 4th most extensive gelera in the Pyrenees.

Este aparato glaciar pertenece al siguiente macizo:

10) Barrancs

Comparativa de imágenes

1910

2023

Comparison of 113 years
Barrancs Glacier in 1910 (Juli Soler Santaló – AFCEC).
Barrancs ice field in 2023 (Jordi Camins).

1985

2015

Comparison of 30 years (1985-2015) from the summit of the Aneto.

Barrancs Glacier covered in snow during the favourable summer of 1985 (Jordi Camins).

Barrancs Glacier in 2015. Its loss of length compared to1986 is remarkable (Jordi Camins).

Galería de imágenes

The Barrancs Glacier (10) in 2017, when it was still showing weak activity on the northern slope of Aneto Peak (3,404 m) (5). On the left is the Espalda de Aneto (3,348 m) (19). On the right are two of the fragments into which the Aneto Glacier split, the Superior de Aneto (11-2) and the Punta Oliveras (11-3), next to the Punta Mn. Jaume Oliveras (3,298 m) (20). (Jordi Camins).