The entry passage descends some 45 metres (148 ft) vertically in a narrow chimney before opening up into the cavern's main gallery.

[1] Carlists supported Don Carlos, Count of Molina, as successor to the Spanish throne, and were opposed by Royalists.

Local legend has it that an unnamed Carlist threw himself to death rather than surrender to the Royalists, and suggests that the cave was named for him.

[4] The cave was first successfully explored in 1958 by a team of Spanish speleologists from Grupos Universitarios de Montaña (GUM).

[4] Based on similar formations found in both, it is speculated that nearby Pozalagua Cave was a part of Torca del Carlista now separated by fallen rock.