Gran Encantat towers over the picturesque reservoir of Estany de Sant Maurici, and to the east Pica d'Estats (the tallest mountain in Catalonia) can be seen.

The mountain has an incredible jagged shape that looks as if it has pierced the sky, the two rocky peaks that make up Els Encantas are separated by a gorge that runs down the middle of the massif.

Then the wide body of water that is the Estany de Sant Maurici reservoir, this huge lake sometimes appears turquoise in summer.

Petrographically, the Escrita valley is formed by the same normal granite of the Pyrenean axial axis; but these two peaks are made of folded slate and calcareous rock, of a not very good quality but which, nevertheless, has given rise to these spectacular spiers.

The first ascents of the Gran Encantado, by the normal route, carried out in 1901, are attributed to Negrín, Romeo, Salles and Ciffre, according to the Pyrenean Patrice de Bellefont.