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Cave of the Crystals or Giant Crystal Cave (Spanish: Cueva de los cristales) is a cave connected to the Naica Mine at a depth of 300 metres (980 ft), in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. It takes the form of a chamber within the limestone host rock of the mine, and is about 109 metres (358 ft) long with a volume of 5,000 to 6,000 cubic metres (180,000 ...
In 2021, an entire new section of the cave was discovered, increasing its known length to 76,735 metres (251,755 ft) and its depth to 1,536 metres (5,039 ft). [1] The 2022 National Geographic TV film "Explorer: the Deepest Cave" documents the further exploration of the cave in 2021 as it was taking place by Bill Stone and a large team.
Guila Naquitz cave entrance, Oaxaca A contemporary illustration of Painting 1 from Juxtlahuaca. This is a list of caves in Mexico (not just archaeological): Archaic era
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Grutas de Bustamante (Bustamante Caves), also known as Palmito Caves, are a group of natural caves located in the municipality of Bustamante, Nuevo Leon.The caves are located in an entrance of the mountains known as Sierra de Gomas, the Bustamante caves are located 107 kilometers northwest outside Monterrey and 7 kilometers southwest Bustamante municipal seat.
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The observatory is a cave modified to allow study of the movement of the sun. The cave was covered with stucco and painted black, yellow and red with a chimney that measured from the base to the surface 8.7 meters, and which is hexagonal in the top. The chimney has a slight slope allowing the sun's rays to be to projected on the floor of the cave.
The term Chicomoztoc derives from Nahuatl chicome (“seven”), oztotl (“cave”), and -c (“place”). In symbolic terms these caves within a hill have been compared to the wombs from which the various peoples were born; another possible association is with the seven orifices of the human body.