List of caves in Mexico explained

This is a list of caves 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)^[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 (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

• List of caves
• Maya cave sites
• Speleology

Notes and References

1. Taylor. Walter W.. The Hunter-Gatherer Nomads of Northern Mexico: A Comparison of the Archival and Archaeological Records. World Archaeology. 1972. 4. 2. 167–178. 2011-11-15. 10.1080/00438243.1972.9979530.
2. Web site: Sistema Huautla Becomes Deepest Cave in the Western Hemisphere. 3 April 2013.