List of caves in Mexico

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

• Guila Naquitz Cave (Oaxaca, ca.8000-6700B.C.)
• Nogales Cave (Tamaulipas, ca.5000-3000B.C.)
• Coxcatlan Cave (Tehuacan Valley, Puebla, 5000-3400B.C.)
• La Perra Cave (Tamaulipas, ca.3000-2200B.C.)
• Frightful Cave (Central Mexican Highands, ca.7500B.C.-185A.D.)

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, 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 second longest underwater cave system
• Sistema Sac Actun (Quintana Roo), world's longest underwater cave system
• Sótano de las Golondrinas (Cave of Swallows, San Luis Potosí)

See also

• List of caves
• Maya cave sites