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List of caves in Mexico
This is a
list
of
cave
s in
Mexico
(not just
archaeological
):
Archaic era
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)
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 GarcÃÂa
(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)
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 PotosÃÂ
)
Sierra Mixteca-Zapoteca incl
Ndaxagua
formation on Juquila aka Xiquila River
See also
List of caves
Maya cave sites
Speleology
References