Caves of Sitges
Sitges, in the Garraf, brings together 140 cavities: 103 pits and 37 caves, with 5,175 m of total passage and a maximum depth of 193 m. Notable among them are la Falconera, the Forat de la Ruda and the Avenc Leia.
Sitges has 140 catalogued caves, including 103 potholes and 37 caves. The longest is la Falconera (600m) and the deepest is Forat de la Ruda (193m). Most caves are found in limestone.
Length adds each cave once (a system counts once), and depth is that of the deepest cave, canyons excluded.
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Sitges, a municipality in the Garraf, contains 140 inventoried cavities: 103 pits and 37 caves. Together they total 5,175 m of passage and reach a maximum depth of 193 m. The dominant lithologies are limestones, with 134 cavities, followed by dolomites, with 4, and travertines and conglomerates, with 1 each.
Among the most significant cavities are la Falconera, the main spring of the Garraf massif, known since ancient times, with natural and artificial galleries and speleological and underwater explorations since 1899. The Forat de la Ruda, a pit 193 m deep in the Fondo de Vallbona, is the deepest cavity in the municipality. Other notable cavities are the Avenc Leia, discovered in December 2016 by the GES-Garraf and made known in 2018, and the Avenc del Vallaric, with an entrance shaft of 52 m.
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The 20 longest
- 1la FalconeraSitges, Barcelona600 m
- 2Forat de la RudaSitges, Barcelona450 m
- 3Avenc Benjamí-digónSitges, Barcelona240 m
- 4Avenc del VallaricSitges, Barcelona215 m
- 5Avenc LeiaSitges, Barcelona180 m
- 6Cova del Gegant-llargaSitges, Barcelona180 m
- 7Avenc Hanna SvacbrocSitges, Barcelona135 m
- 8Avenc Emili SabatéSitges, Barcelona134 m
- 9Avenc dels ArítjolsSitges, Barcelona130 m
- 10Avenc del Penya-segat de la FalconeraSitges, Barcelona105 m
- 11Avenc de la PletaSitges, Barcelona104 m
- 12Avenc del LlampSitges, Barcelona90 m
- 13Avenc Ramon VallsSitges, Barcelona90 m
- 14Avenc dels AragallsSitges, Barcelona85 m
- 15Avenc de l'ArboçSitges, Barcelona83 m
- 16Cova del CongreSitges, Barcelona77 m
- 17Avenc de les SerpsSitges, Barcelona73 m
- 18Avenc dels BessonsSitges, Barcelona67 m
- 19Avenc del MiradorSitges, Barcelona65 m
- 20Cova Submarina del BaluardSitges, Barcelona65 m
The 20 deepest
- 1Forat de la RudaSitges, Barcelona193 m
- 2Avenc LeiaSitges, Barcelona110 m
- 3Avenc del VallaricSitges, Barcelona103 m
- 4Avenc Benjamí-digónSitges, Barcelona95 m
- 5Avenc dels ArítjolsSitges, Barcelona92 m
- 6la FalconeraSitges, Barcelona81 m
- 7Avenc del Penya-segat de la FalconeraSitges, Barcelona80 m
- 8Avenc de la PletaSitges, Barcelona75 m
- 9Avenc Ramon VallsSitges, Barcelona74 m
- 10Avenc del LlampSitges, Barcelona73 m
- 11Avenc Hanna SvacbrocSitges, Barcelona65 m
- 12Avenc de l'ArboçSitges, Barcelona60 m
- 13Avenc dels AragallsSitges, Barcelona55 m
- 14Avenc SantsSitges, Barcelona51 m
- 15Avenc del MiradorSitges, Barcelona47 m
- 16Avenc de la PalmeraSitges, Barcelona45 m
- 17Avenc dels BessonsSitges, Barcelona39 m
- 18Avenc Emili SabatéSitges, Barcelona39 m
- 19Avenc dels NegresSitges, Barcelona34 m
- 20Avenc de la Riera de la FalconeraSitges, Barcelona33 m
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