List of caves in Mexico
This is a list of caves in Mexico (not just archaeological):
Archaic era
[edit]- Guila Naquitz Cave (Oaxaca, c.8000-6700BC)
- Cueva de la Olla (Chihuahua, c.5500 BC)
- Nogales Cave (Tamaulipas, c. 5000-3000 BC)
- Coxcatlan Cave (Tehuacan Valley, Puebla, 5000-3400 BC)
- La Perra Cave (Tamaulipas, c. 3000-2200 BC)
- Frightful Cave (Central Mexican Highlands, c. 7500 BC-185 AD)[1]
Middle preclassic era
[edit]- Juxtlahuaca (Guerrero, Olmec-style painting cave)
- Oxtotitlan (Guerrero, Olmec-style painting cave)
Late preclassic era
[edit]- Loltun Cave (Yucatán, a painting cave of Maya civilization)
Postclassic era
[edit]- Balank'anche Cave (Yucatán, people offered a worship to Rain God and Xipe Totec with Toltec-style censers)
Modern era
[edit]- 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 (Oaxaca), 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 longest underwater cave system
- Sistema Sac Actun (Quintana Roo), world's second longest underwater cave system
- Sótano de las Golondrinas (Cave of Swallows, San Luis Potosí)
- Sierra Mixteca-Zapoteca incl Ndaxagua formation on Juquila aka Xiquila River
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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 2011-11-15.
- ^ "Sistema Huautla Becomes Deepest Cave in the Western Hemisphere". 3 April 2013.
