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List Of Caves In Mexico
This is a list of caves in Mexico (not just archaeological): Archaic era * Guila Naquitz Cave (Oaxaca, c.8000-6700BC) * 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) 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chihuahua (state)
Chihuahua (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is located in northwestern Mexico, and is bordered by the states of Sonora to the west, Sinaloa to the southwest, Durango to the south, and Coahuila to the east. To the north and northeast, it shares an extensive border with the U.S. adjacent to the U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas. Its capital city is Chihuahua City; the largest city is Ciudad Juárez. Although Chihuahua is primarily identified with its namesake, the Chihuahuan Desert, it has more forests than any other state in Mexico, aside from Durango. Due to its variant climate, the state has a large variety of fauna and flora. The state is mostly characterized by rugged mountainous terrain and wide river valleys. The Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range, part of the continental spine that also inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cave Of The Crystals
Cave of the Crystals or Giant Crystal Cave () is a cave connected to the Naica Mine at a depth of , in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. It takes the form of a chamber within the limestone host rock of the mine, and is about long with a volume of . The chamber contains giant selenite crystals (gypsum, CaSO4), some of the largest natural crystals ever found. The largest is , with a volume of about , and an estimated mass of 12 tonnes. When it was accessible, the cave was extremely hot, with air temperatures reaching up to with 90 to 99 percent humidity. The cave is relatively unexplored because of these factors. Without proper protection, people can only endure approximately ten minutes of exposure at a time. The cave was discovered in April 2000 by brothers Juan and Pedro Sánchez while drilling in the mine. , the mine had reflooded and the cavern filled once more with the water rich in minerals required for the crystals to grow. A group of scientists in the Naica Project have bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grutas De García
Grutas de García (Garcia Caves) is a cave complex located 9 km outside García, Nuevo León in northern Mexico about 30 km from Monterrey. The caves are inside Sierra del Fraile mountain and protected area. The easiest way to reach the entrance to the caves is by taking a five-minute ride on the aerial tramway, but there is a steep path that can be taken to reach the caves. History The caves are thought to have formed between 50 and 60 million years ago. During the prehistoric era, the caves were submerged in sea water, and that is the reason marine fossils like sea shells and snail shells can be seen on the cave walls. Grutas de García remained hidden for thousands of years until 1843. Brothers Ignacio and Cornelio Marmolejo, discovered the caves during a casual excursion through the mountains, they went and notified a priest of a church in villa de Garcia then from there the priest was “known” for the discovery of las Grutas de Garcia Structure The caves insi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuevo León
Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a total land area of 64,555 square kilometers (40,112 square miles), Nuevo León is the 13th largest federal entity in Mexico. The state is bordered by Tamaulipas to the east, Coahuila to the west, and both Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi to the south. To the north, it shares an international border with the U.S. state of Texas. The Laredo-Colombia Solidarity International Bridge is the only vehicular bridge that connects the United States with the state of Nuevo León. It crosses over the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) between the city of Colombia, Nuevo León, and Laredo, Texas. Nuevo Léon is the seventh largest state in terms of population with an estimated population of 5.78 million people in 2020. The state's most populous city is Monterrey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiquihuitillos
Chiquihuitillos is an archeological site located in the municipality of Mina in Nuevo León, Mexico. The site is notable for its petroglyphs, and is considered an important part of the region's history. Located in a desert area near the towns of Mina, Villaldama and Bustamante, it has one of the highest concentrations of cave paintings in Mexico. The site consists of several hills containing a series of rock shelters where ancient tribes painted drawings on the rocks and inscribed elements of their cosmological view. The area was formerly inhabited by native Alzapas that spoke the Coahuilteco language. It is not certain how many people lived at the site, since it does not seem to be a residential area but a place for visitors, as currently there is no water in the vicinity to sustain a population. While the tribes left no traces of pyramids, as in the case of other mesoamerican cultures, the importance and the monumental nature of the paintings on ravines and cliffs i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevé Cave
Chevé Cave ( ; es, Cueva Chevé, Sistema Chevé) is a deep cave located in the Sierra Juárez mountain range in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca. As of 2021, its deepest point has been measured at deep, making it the second deepest known cavern in Mexico and the Americas, as well as the world’s 11th deepest cave. The main cave apparently ends in a terminal sump. , the present limit of exploration in Chevé, at 11.77 kilometers from the nearest entrance, represents one of the most remote locations ever attained inside any cave on Earth. The logistics of reaching this point are enormous: more than two kilometers of rope need to be rigged and seven underground camps established. Chevé is the deepest proven freshwater hydrological system in the world. Temperatures in Chevé are moderate, ranging from . It has been most thoroughly explored under the leadership of caver Bill Stone. Exploration history Chevé Cave was discovered in the mid-1980s by Bill Farr and Carol Vesely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grutas De Cacahuamilpa National Park
The Grutas de Cacahuamilpa National Park in Guerrero, Mexico, is best known for the Grutas de Cacahuamilpa Caverns. It is also home to the Grutas of Carlos Pacheco, a smaller system, as well as two subterranean rivers which have carved out tunnels in the rock. The park has outdoor pursuit attractions such as rappelling, and rock climbing in Limontitla Canyon. as well as the two underground rivers to explore. It also has a small botanical garden, a pool and places to camp. Geography The park is located in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains, primarily in the northeast part of Guerrero state. This section of the Sierra Madre del Sur is made of rock, mostly limestone, that was formed under oceans millions of years ago. The caverns extend through the municipalities of Pilcaya, Tetipac and Taxco of Guerrero state, and extend into Morelos state in the municipality of Coatlán del Río. The parks extends over 2,700 hectares of land, and is located southwest of Mexico City, near the silv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toltec
The Toltec culture () was a Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican culture that ruled a state centered in Tula (Mesoamerican site), Tula, Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo, Mexico, during the Epiclassic and the early Post-Classic period of Mesoamerican chronology, reaching prominence from 950 to 1150 CE. The later Aztec culture saw the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors and described Toltec culture emanating from Tollan, ''Tōllān'' (Nahuatl language, Nahuatl for Tula) as the epitome of civilization; in the Nahuatl language the word ''Tōltēkatl'' (singular) or ''Tōltēkah'' (plural) came to take on the meaning "artisan". The Aztec oral tradition, oral and pictographic tradition also described the history of a Toltec Empire, giving lists of rulers and their exploits. Modern scholars debate whether the Aztec narratives of Toltec history should be given credence as descriptions of actual historical events. While all scholars acknowledge that there is a lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xipe Totec
In Aztec mythology and religion, Xipe Totec (; nci-IPA, Xīpe Totēc, ˈʃiːpe ˈtoteːk(ʷ)) or Xipetotec ("Our Lord the Flayed One") was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, spring, goldsmiths, silversmiths, liberation, and the seasons. Xipe Totec was also known by various other names, including Tlatlauhca (), Tlatlauhqui Tezcatlipoca () ("Red Smoking Mirror") and Yohuallahuan () ("the Night Drinker"), and Yaotzin ("revered enemy"). The Tlaxcaltecs and the Huexotzincas worshipped a version of the deity under the name of Camaxtli, and the god has been identified with Yopi, a Zapotec god represented on Classic Period urns.Miller & Taube 1993, 2003, p.188. The female equivalent of Xipe Totec was the goddess Xilonen- Chicomecoatl. Xipe Totec connected agricultural renewal with warfare. He flayed himself to give food to humanity, symbolic of the way maize seeds lose their outer layer before germination and of snakes shedding their skin. He is o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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