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Montezuma Well (Yavapai: ʼHakthkyayva), a detached unit of Montezuma Castle National Monument, [1] is a natural limestone sinkhole near the town of Lake Montezuma, Arizona, through which some 1,500,000 US gallons (5,700,000 L; 1,200,000 imp gal) of water emerge each day from an underground spring. It is located about 11 miles (18 km) northeast ...
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife preserve operated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, encompassing part of the Montezuma Swamp at the north end of Cayuga Lake. The 10,004-acre (40.48 km 2 ) preserve is composed of swamps, pools and channels and is a stopping point for migratory birds.
The ruins of several prehistoric dwellings are scattered in and around the rim of the Well. Their inhabitants belonged to several indigenous American cultures that are believed to have occupied the Verde Valley between 700 and 1425 CE, the foremost of which being a cultural group archaeologists have termed the Southern Sinagua.
The Montezuma Well springsnail (Pyrgulopsis montezumensis) is a species of freshwater snail in the family Hydrobiidae, the mud snails. It is endemic to Montezuma Well, a large sinkhole in Yavapai County, Arizona, in the United States. [1] This snail has an ovate shell measuring no more than 2.7 millimeters tall. The tip of the snout is pigmented.
The ruins of several prehistoric dwellings are scattered in and around the rim of the Well. Their inhabitants belonged to several indigenous American cultures that are believed to have occupied the Verde Valley between 700 and 1425 CE, the foremost of which being a cultural group archaeologists have termed the Southern Sinagua.
Montezuma Castle National Monument protects a set of well-preserved dwellings located in Camp Verde, Arizona, which were built and used by the Sinagua people, a pre-Columbian culture closely related to the Hohokam and other indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States, [4] between approximately AD 1100 and 1425. The main structure ...
Motobdella montezuma is nocturnal, resting at the bottom of the well during the day, when predatory waterfowl are present. [7] As night falls, the leeches swim towards the surface and hunt amphipods near the surface; this is the only instance of a leech hunting in open water. [7] Prey are detected by passive sonar, and swallowed whole.
Halls of Montezuma may refer to: Chapultepec, a hill settled by the Aztecs near Tenochtitlan; now a park in Mexico City; Chapultepec Castle, a Spanish structure located on Chapultepec hill "Marines' Hymn", the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, which starts "From the halls of Montezuma" Halls of Montezuma, a 1951 film