List of caves in Mexico
Guila Naquitz cave entrance, Oaxaca
A contemporary illustration of Painting 1 from Juxtlahuaca
This is a list of caves in Mexico (not just archaeological):
Archaic era
- Guila Naquitz Cave (Oaxaca, ca.8000-6700B.C.)
- Nogales Cave (Tamaulipas, ca.5000-3000B.C.)
- Coxcatlan Cave (Tehuacan Valley, Puebla, 5000-3400B.C.)
- La Perra Cave (Tamaulipas, ca.3000-2200B.C.)
- Frightful Cave (Central Mexican Highands, ca.7500B.C.-185A.D.)[1]
Middle preclassic era
- Juxtlahuaca (Guerrero, Olmec-style painting cave)
- Oxtotitlan (Guerrero, Olmec-style painting cave)
Late preclassic era
- Loltun Cave (Yucatán, a painting cave of Maya civilization)
Postclassic era
- Balank'anche Cave (Yucatán, people offered a worship to Rain God and Xipe Totec with Toltec-style censers)
Modern era
- Cacahuamilpa Cave (Grutas de Cacahuamilpa National Park, Guerrero)
- Chevé Cave (Oaxaca)
- Chiquihuitillos (Nuevo León)
- Grutas de García (Nuevo León)
- Naica Crystal Caves (Chihuahua), largest gypsum crystals in the world
- Sistema Dos Ojos (Quintana Roo), underwater cave system
- Sistema Huautla, deepest cave in the western hemisphere (as of 2013)[2]
- Sistema Nohoch Nah Chich (Quintana Roo), underwater cave system; subsumed into Sac Actun in early 2007
- Sistema Ox Bel Ha (Quintana Roo), world's second longest underwater cave system
- Sistema Sac Actun (Quintana Roo), world's longest underwater cave system
- Sótano de las Golondrinas (Cave of Swallows, San Luis Potosí)
See also
References
- ↑ Taylor, Walter W. (1972). "The Hunter-Gatherer Nomads of Northern Mexico: A Comparison of the Archival and Archaeological Records" (PDF). World Archaeology. 4 (2): 167–178. doi:10.1080/00438243.1972.9979530. Retrieved 01/10/2011. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ http://cavingnews.com/20130403-sistema-huautla-becomes-deepest-cave-in-the-western-hemisphere
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