Barx Township is one of the main points of Speleology of the Valencian community in the mountainous area of the term is located one of the most interesting karst births in the region, with numerous chasm that make the rains sink; the most important is the chasm d'Albaida.
You need only note the words of one of the leading botanists of all time Don Antonio Jose Cabanilles:
"I went up to that height to watch the show that gave nature on October 1, 1791 after a flood of three days. As soon as I entered the valley saw that the opposite mountain Puigmola shone through the wide waterfalls very high rushed : roads, fields and almost the entire surface waters overflowing, which ran several paths sinks, forming sometimes jumps, and other sinks swirls distinction between the so-called Maiden's always open ... ".
"It is this valley (the Barx) as the receptacle of the aspects of those high mountains, unable to leave the waters on either side who surround him, so I would look become lagoon, if Providence had not dexado several sinks to the Avencs name is given, where the waters are introduced through the bowels and even the foundations of the mountains. "
"In the bowels of the mountains must have considerable caves and large number of dilated tubes and channels, and internal banks must continually lose the union and terrea basis they had. Because the two ALLING sources major and minor, whose waters form a river pernne that fertilizes the lower valley of Valldigna ... "
D. Antonio José Cavanilles 1795 (Observations on the Kingdom of Valencia).
