Grotte di Sentmenat

Sentmenat, a municipality in the Vallès Occidental, has 11 catalogued cavities: 4 pits and 7 caves. Together they total 158 m of passage and reach a maximum depth of 19 m. The lithologies present are conglomerates, in 4 cases, and travertines, in 7.

The most notable cavity is the Avenc de Can Castellet de Dalt, with 76 m of passage and 19 m of depth, known since time immemorial and explored in 1825 by Mariano de la Paz Graells. Other relevant cavities are the la Font Falsa de Guanta, an intermittent spring of about 8 m of depth studied by the Espeleo Club Sabadell in 1980, and the Avenc de la Font Falsa, of almost 7 m of depth, explored in September 1984 by the SIS del Centre Excursionista de Terrassa.

Among the caves are the Cova del Comte, with 11 m of passage, linked to the legend of Count Borrell, and the Cova Nº5 del Mal Grau, with 9 m of passage, with an entrance 11 m wide by 2.5 m high.