Cueva de Los Indios, also known as the Cueva Punta Maldonado site, in the municipality of

Loíza, Puerto Rico Loíza (Spanish pronunciation: ) is a town and municipality on the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico, north of Canóvanas; east of Carolina, Puerto Rico; and west of Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Loíza is spread over five barrios and Loíza Pueblo ...

, was listed on the

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in 1982. It is a "small" cave with

petroglyphs A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions ...

that were, as of 1981, well-preserved, with no evidence of vandalism or other

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. In 1981 it was asserted that site is the "only recorded ceremonial cave in the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico that corresponds to the Taino aboriginal occupation" and that it was a site with high archeological research potential.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Puerto Rico Caves of Puerto Rico Loíza, Puerto Rico Petroglyphs in Puerto Rico {{PuertoRico-NRHP-stub