The Val de Laguart is a chain of villages overlooking the gorge as you climb up the valley: Campell, Fleix, Benimaurell. This area was the last stronghold of the descendents of the Moors who were forcibly expelled in 1609. There is a story, half legend, about the final stand of the moors on the Caballo Verde Ridge, which runs above these villages on the south side of the valley. The valley was repopulated by people from the island of Mallorca in 1611, and today you will still find some families with Mallorcan family names in these villages.

    Val de Laguart (which is the name of the valley of the Barranco del Infierno gorge) obtains its name from the arabic "Al-Agwar" which means "the caves".

    The Caball Vert – (Catalan for Green Horse - Caballo Verde in Castillian).

    The Sierra del Penyo Roig (or Serra del Penyal de Laguart) is sometimes also called the Cavall (Caball) Vert ridge (although on the official maps this name refers only to the easternmost portion of the ridge)

    Ezzme de Laguart, 1580-1609: sorceress and healer. She incited people to rebel against the expulsion edict by spreading the prophecy of the green horse. .

    In 1609, at the order of their improvised King Mellini and with the colaboration of Ezme, the beautiful witch from Laguar, 1500 rebels converged around the green horse, the modern day Vall de Laguart rock, and the villages of Campeill, Fleix and Benimaurell, ready to resist expulsion.