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Sistema Huautla is a cave system in the Sierra Mazateca mountains of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.As of May 2024 it is the deepest cave system in the Western Hemisphere, 1,560 metres (5,120 ft) from the highest entrance to the lowest reached point in the cave system, with over 62 miles of mapped passageways.
The cave was investigated by Abbe Henri Breuil, a French-Catholic priest, archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist, and geologist, who had come to Spain following a report by Colonel Verner of its existence in Benaoján, near Ronda.
Cueva de los Tayos (Spanish, "Cave of the Oilbirds") is a cave located on the eastern slopes of the Andes mountains in the Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador.It owes its name to being the home of the native nocturnal birds called tayos (Steatornis caripensis), which live in numerous caves in the Andean jungles of South America.
Cacahuamilpa is one of the largest cave systems in the world. [4] It is a "live" cave system, meaning that groundwater still filters down into it, and that the formations there are still growing. [3] Inside the cavern system are ninety large "salons" separated by large natural rock walls and connected to one another via a central gallery. [4]
Waulpane Cave (Sinhala: වවුල්පනේ හුණුගල් ගුහාව) or Wavula Pane Cave is a cave located in Bulutota Rakwana range, northwest of Embilipitiya one of the archeological sites located in Sri Lanka. The cave is located in the Ratnapura District, in the
The name "Waitomo" comes from the Māori words wai, water and tomo, hole or shaft.The local Māori people had known about the caves for about a century before a local Māori, originally from Kawhia, Tane Tinorau, and English surveyors, Laurence Cussen and Fred Mace, were shown the entrance in 1884 and Tane and Fred did extensive explorations in 1887 and 1888. [1]
Montezuma Well is geologically very similar to the sinkholes and cenotes found in Florida and the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico, that is, a limestone cave which has collapsed to expose its subterranean water source.
Laili is a limestone cave located near the town of Laleia, Manatuto District, East Timor.Archeological findings in Laili provide evidence that the cave was occupied by modern humans 44,600 years ago, making it the second oldest known such habitation in Wallacea aside from Madjedbebe in mainland Northern Australia.