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The Holy Spirit Grotto (La Gruta del Espíritu Santo in Spanish), also known as Corinto Cave, in Corinto, Morazán, El Salvador, is a registered national monument of petroglyphs. The cave is largely associated with the Xibalba legend.
La Esperanza/Intibucá has plenty of hotels, restaurant and shops in every price range. [18] Some sites of interest in and around La Esperanza include: [3] La Gruta Laguna de Chiligatoro outside of La Esperanza. La Gruta – This cave is located on a small hill overlooking town, 5 minutes walk from the Central Park.
The word grotto comes from Italian grotta, Vulgar Latin grupta, and Latin crypta ("a crypt"). [2] It is also related by a historical accident to the word grotesque.In the late 15th century, Romans accidentally unearthed Nero's Domus Aurea on the Palatine Hill, a series of rooms, decorated with designs of garlands, slender architectural framework, foliage, and animals.
Ch'usiq Uta (Aymara ch'usiqa owl, uta house, [1] "owl house", also spelled Ch'usek Uta), also known as Cueva de San Pedro or Gruta de San Pedro (Spanish for "cave of Saint Peter" or "grotto of Saint Peter"), is a cave with an enclosed lake in the La Paz Department in Bolivia.
“El mirador de la mano”, is a stalagmite that formed a shape that resembles a human hand. There are numerous other fascinating formations as well, including “El Nacimiento” (The Nativity), “La Fuente Congelada” (The Frozen Fountain), "La Torre China” (The Chinese Tower), “El Teatro” (The Theatre), and “El Árbol de Navidad ...
The Gruta da Lagoa Azul State Park was created by decree 1.472 of 13 December 1999 with an area of about 12,512.55 hectares (30,919.2 acres), including the former 512.55 hectares (1,266.5 acres) Gruta Lagoa Azul Reserve.
Gruta de Ubajara (English: Ubajara Grotto) is a limestone cave, located within the Ubajara National Park, near the city of Ubajara, in the foothills of the Serra de Ibiapaba, Ceará, Brazil. Its sequence of nine halls has a length of 1,120 m (3,674.54 ft), of which 420 m (1,377.95 ft) are lit trails. [ 1 ]
Gruta del Indio is a rock shelter located in Rincón del Atuel, Southern Mendoza, Argentina. The site is located 28 km south of the town of San Rafael at around 660m above sea level. Significant excavations suggest the coexistence of humans and mega-fauna, possibly contributing to existing theories of humans acting as major predators were large ...