Avenc Ramon Valls
A 74-metre-deep pit in the municipality of Sitges, with access from the Pleta and the Fondo de Vallbona, and with a rich history of explorations and biological collections.
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Avenc Ramon Valls
A 74-metre-deep pit in the municipality of Sitges, with access from the Pleta and the Fondo de Vallbona, and with a rich history of explorations and biological collections.
Sitges · Garraf
Length: 90 m · Depth: 74 m
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A 74-metre-deep pit in the municipality of Sitges, with access from the Pleta and the Fondo de Vallbona, and with a rich history of explorations and biological collections.
Topographic
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Description
Morphology
Through a mouth of reduced dimensions one enters a 74-metre pit, which begins with a narrow 8-metre conduit, at the end of which it gains width progressively thanks to a lateral concavity fully joined to the main pit. At -28 metres there is a small ledge in an ascending ramp, occupied by poorly cemented clasts and which communicates with an impassable chimney. At the base of the pit, the point of maximum depth, one can still make out the old sinkhole through which the waters drained away.
History
The avenc Ramon Valls, Bessons and Vell were known to Gilberto, who was the tenant farmer of the Pleta until the middle of 1964. In the early summer of 1958 this man accompanied members of the SES-Puigmal to the mouth 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 pits were also explored by this group at the same time. As an anecdote of these explorations it was heard said that Gilberto asked the people of the SES to dedicate the deepest pit of those he had shown them to his two children who were twins. But the people of the Puigmal gave it the name of a club companion who had died shortly before and the twins were left with the second in importance; this did not please the tenant farmer, and legend says that he never told them of other pits he knew.
Bio
Troglocharinus Ferreri Reitt.
6 specimens collected by Oleguer Escolà on 27 January 1963.
61 specimens collected by Oleguer Escolà on 24 April 1983.
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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.
3. SES Puigmal.(1958).-“Avenc Ramon Valls”. Cordada (42):11.Barcelona.
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