thumb|Guila Naquitz cave entrance, Oaxacaupright|thumb|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, 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)

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)
  • 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

References