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Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological site of Monte Albán: Oaxaca: 1987 415; i, ii, iii, iv (cultural) Monte Albán is the main archaeological site of the Oaxaca Valley which flourished from c. 500 BCE under the Olmecs, Zapotecs, and Mixtecs. The successive cultures created terraces, dams, pyramids (pictured), and artificial mounds.
The Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, Mexico. Cenotes are surface connections to subterranean water bodies. [5] While the best-known cenotes are large open-water pools measuring tens of meters in diameter, such as those at Chichen Itza in Mexico, the greatest number of cenotes are smaller sheltered sites and do not necessarily have any surface exposed water.
The climate is Coastal sub-humid and Temperate sub-humid. The main rivers that cross the park are the Huayapan and San Felipe rivers. Most of their water is piped to supply the city of Oaxaca. [2] The park covers 2,737 hectares, including the 3,111 meter high Cerro San Felipe, part of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca. [1]
Sistema Huautla is a cave system in the Sierra Mazateca mountains of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.As of May 2024 it is the deepest cave system in the Western Hemisphere, 1,560 metres (5,120 ft) from the highest entrance to the lowest reached point in the cave system, with over 62 miles of mapped passageways.
Dainzú is a Zapotec archaeological site located in the eastern side of the Valles Centrales de Oaxaca, about 20 km south-east of the city of Oaxaca, Oaxaca State, Mexico. It is an ancient village near to and contemporary with Monte Albán and Mitla, with an earlier development. Dainzú was first occupied 700-600 BC but the main phase of ...
Three prehistoric human remains have been found within the subsystem. The Jailhouse cenote, or Las Palmas, is the entrance to the locations of the Muknal and Las Palmas caves. The skeleton of an 18 to 20-year-old woman, Eve of Naharon, (13,454±117 cal BP) was discovered at a location around 368 m (1,207 ft) away from the Jailhouse cenote entrance.
Free-air gravity anomaly over the Chicxulub structure (coastline and state boundaries shown as black lines). The Chicxulub crater (Spanish pronunciation: [t͡ʃikʃuˈlub] ⓘ cheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
The Sierra Mixe, as the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca descends towards the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, home to the Mixe people, descendants of the ancient Olmecs of Mexico's Gulf Coast, lies to the east. The major Mixe centers are San Pablo and San Pedro Ayutla, Santiago Zacatepec, and Santa María Totontepec , and the major peak of the area is ...
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