Cuților Gorge, Pădurea Craiului Mountains

GPS Coordinates:
46.83748 N, 22.39616 E

Cutilor Gorge is situated on the middle sector of the valley with the same name in the upper basin of Rosia Valley, having Ponita hamlet downstream. The gorge is between 60-100 m depth and shelters many caves, karstic springs and water drainage points. Only about 1.3 km of the total 2.1 km is a real gorge.

At a certain point the water flows through a V-shaped valley that is deeper and deeper and whose walls become more and more vertical and the water starts to disapplear, when there is draught either in the foot of several detritus trails or in the main waterbed.

The real gorge is drained by a temporary stream that meanders between the limestone promontories ( Stanul Gurguiat and Piatra Lată) or several detritus trails. At the entrance to Ponita village, the gorge ends all of a sudden and the lime stone form a spectacular precipice of over 80 m. Cutilor Gorge shelters many caves, some of the most important being Peștera care Cântă cave, Vacii cave, Liliecilor cave.