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Balma del Garriga

Balma del Garriga

Balma de 8 metres de fons a les Sansuies (Montmell)

Montmell, El • Baix Penedès8m1m

An 8-metre-deep rock shelter at les Sansuies (Montmell), about 14 metres wide and 5.60 metres high, which diminishes towards the back.

Characteristics

Location

On the TV-2401 road from la Bisbal del Penedès towards Juncosa de Montmell, once past kilometre 3 you must turn right towards the farmhouses of les Sansuies. Once you have reached the area of the urbanisation, continue along the main street until the asphalt ends; you must follow the track until you reach a crossroads where there is a padlock blocking the way ahead, right at the height of a rounded construction with a well beside it. Continue along the track to the right, now only suitable for all-terrain vehicles, until you reach the second turning on the right; the track levels out until you reach a kind of small square where you can turn around. Here begins a path that climbs up the right-hand hydrographic slope of the ravine, until you find a turning to the left that climbs the slope up to a cliff known as cova del Garriga, where climbing is practised and where there is a large number of fully equipped climbing routes. Once at the base of the cliff, we will pass in front of the entrances of three caves and we will find the rock shelter at the end of the cliff.

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Entrances

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  1. Balma del Garriga

    Elevation: 555 m

    41.313864, 1.479194
    UTM 31T (ED 50) 372798 4574919
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Description

Morphology

It is a rock shelter about 14 metres wide by 8 metres deep and 5.60 metres high, which diminishes as we advance towards the back.

Progression

Once at the base of the cliff, we will pass in front of the entrances of three caves and we will find the rock shelter at the end of the cliff.

History

The coves del Garriga have been known locally at les Sansuies since time immemorial.

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