Cueva del Espíritu Santo
| Cueva del Espíritu Santo
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 Entrance to the Cueva de Corinto |
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| Location: | Corinto , Morazan Department , El Salvador | |
| Height : | 839 m | |
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Geographic location: |
13 ° 49 '20 " N , 87 ° 57' 54" W | |
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The Cueva del Espíritu Santo ("Cave of the Holy Spirit"; also known as Cueva de Corinto ) is a Salvadoran cave and national monument in the Morazán department in El Salvador .
The cave is located at an altitude of 839 meters above sea level in a heavily forested volcanic landscape , two kilometers north of the Municipio Corinto . It is about 60 meters wide, 30 meters high and 20 meters deep and has several side chambers.
There are around 200 petroglyphs in the cave, each done with different colors, including red, ocher, black, green, yellow and white. The size of the individual rock carvings is very different, some of the human figures are up to 100 cm high, while the mostly smaller ones are only about 30 cm. General symbols are between 4 and 50 cm in height.
The first archaeological research was carried out in 1926 . It is believed that the cave was already occupied by around 200 people in the 12th millennium BC. Chr. Inhabited. The Hamburg archaeologist Wolfgang Haberland (* 1922) carried out studies on the numerous petroglyphs in the late 1970s and proved that the cave belonged to the settlement of the Pre-Classic period of the Mesoamerican civilization . The rock paintings from this period show that people already had boots made of animal skin and fur and also wrapped their feet in leather and pieces of fur.
Web links
- Cueva del Espíritu Santo Bradshaw Foundation (English)