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Caverns of Loltun
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This cave is located
Loltun Caverns are one of the biggest known from the huge
cave system that covers a great territory in southern
Yucatan. They have been arranged for
a safe tour, approximately a 500mts of illuminated paths, in which we can admire huge and
excellent chambers with stalactites, stalagmites and interesting petroglyphs and
rupestrian paintings.
At Loltun, the visitor can learn the natural and cultural history of the Northern Maya Lowlands within a 10,000 years period, from the late Pleistocene to Contemporary times. In one of its cavities, locally known as "Huechil" (from the Maya "Huech": armadillo), archaeological excavations were carried out, and in one of its lowest levels, extinct animal remains were found: mammoth, bison, feline and other animal bones, indicating a colder climate period with a different environment to that of the present. Man made stone tools appeared in a superior level, probably produced by th first Peninsula's inhabitants.
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Other
material remains have been found in this and other parts of the grout including pottery,
marine shells, stone artifacts, bas-relief carvings, petrogl
Visitors can also admire
many natural lime stone formations with capricious and suggestive forms that popular
imagination have baptized them with peculiar names such as
"Cathedral", "Grand Canyon Gallery", "Ear of Corn",
Stalactite Rooms", and so on. It's important to notice the "musical"
columns, formed by the union of stalactites and stalagmites, that produce sounds with
different tones when they are knocked; or a magnificent gallery with its
collapsed
ceiling, with descending tree roots and sun rays...
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