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Avenc del Mig

Avenc del Mig

Tiny 6-metre-deep pit in Sitges, with a one-metre-diameter entrance and a single shaft. Access by ascending the Fondo de Vallbona from Rat Penat, in approximately 1 hour.

Sitges • Garraf 8m 6m

Tiny 6-metre-deep pit in Sitges, with a one-metre-diameter entrance and a single shaft. Access by ascending the Fondo de Vallbona from Rat Penat, in approximately 1 hour.

Characteristics

Location

The easiest access is by ascending the Fondo de Vallbona from the Rat Penat urbanisation. This begins at the roundabout of the urbanisation (plaça de l'Alcalde Güell, where we will follow the street located furthest to the right, arriving practically at the bed of the Fondo de Vallbona. In this sector it is wide and stony and can be crossed through the middle; in some stretches we find a very faint path that passes a few metres above the fondo. Further on we find the confluence with a stream that comes down from the cucona la Sibina, and past this one must look for a path that ascends along the hydrographic left and some 20 metres above the fondo and that presents some retaining walls in the middle of its route. This path leads again to the bed of the stream, near the confluence of another stream that collects all the tributaries of the area of the Bassot de l'Arbre. From here one must follow a little more than a hundred metres along the main torrent, much narrower and choked with undergrowth, until reaching the confluence of two gullies that come down from the Campgràs. From the point where both join, one must ascend in a straight line some 10 metres and the entrance of the avenc Vell is found, and a little to the right the avenc dels Bessons, and still between the two we find the avenc del mig. This itinerary is done in approximately 1 hour.

Map

Entrances

Always verify coordinates and access conditions before setting out.

  1. Avenc del Mig

    Elevation: 270 m

    41.280560, 1.920900
    UTM 31T (ED 50) 409726 4570668
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Photos

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Description

Morphology

The entrance, one metre in diameter, consists of a single shaft 6 metres deep.

History

The avencs Ramon Valls, Bessons and Vell were known to Gilberto, who was a tenant farmer of the Pleta until the middle of 1964. In the early summer of 1953 this man accompanied members of the SES-Puigmal to the entrance of what would be the avenc Ramon Valls and which they fully explored on 17 August of that same year (not 1960 as is said in the Garraf catalogue). The other nearby avencs (Bessons, Vell and Mig) were also explored by this group at the same time.

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Bibliography

  1. Borrás Xavier, Joan. (1974).- Catálogo Espeleológico del Macizo de Garraf (II):1-166. Barcelona.
  2. Miñarro, Josep M. (1990).-“Revissió d'unes cavitats del Fondo de Vallbona”. Espeleosie (31):11-16. SIE-CE Àliga. Barcelona.
  • Fotos 'JNC' facilitades per Jordi Navarro, (Centre Excursionista de Castellar del Vallès).

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