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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.
Montezuma Peak is located 12 miles (19 km) south of the city of Sierra Vista in Coronado National Memorial. It is the highest point within the memorial which is administered by the National Park Service, [5] and the 10th-highest summit in the Huachuca Mountains. [3] The mountain is composed of dacite tuff and granite. [6]
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.
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.
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 ...
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge four miles northeast of Seneca Falls. Montezuma Marsh is a marsh at the northern end of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Much of the marsh is part of the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, which is a major point on the route of many migratory birds, such as Canada geese and mallard ducks.