Complejo Huapoca
As Huápoca a group of archaeological sites in the west of the Mexican state is Chihuahua referred to 18 km in a straight line west of Madera is near the thermal springs of Balneario Huapoca on the eponymous river. The different groups are partly houses with walls made of clay construction in the front part of a cave, other groups consist of similar houses under elongated rock overhangs formed by horizontal geological layers . The construction method and finds indicate the settlement of the Mogollon and the Anasazi cultural tradition. Further investigations have not yet taken place at these sites.
The most important locations accessible to visitors are:
- Cueva Grande, a very large and deep cave around 3 km (path) west of the Río Huapoca and the named Balneario ( 29 ° 11 ′ 20.5 ″ N , 108 ° 20 ′ 35.4 ″ W ) with partially two-story buildings. A waterfall flows down over the opening of the cave.
- Nido del Aguila ( 29 ° 12 ′ 27.5 ″ N , 108 ° 19 ′ 55.3 ″ W ) consists of several small houses under a rock overhang at two thirds of the height of an almost vertical rock face.
- Cueva de la Serpiente ( 29 ° 12 ′ 49.9 ″ N , 108 ° 19 ′ 59.2 ″ W ) with mud houses in a cave that has two entrances and thus offers a passage through a ledge, accessible via a ladder in one Crevice.
Other locations are in the vicinity. One of the most spectacular is the Cueva de las Jarillas , which has several of the pear-shaped corn stores. The remote sites are mostly in an excellent state of preservation.
Individual evidence
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