Sistema Huautla

Descent into Sistema Huautla

The deepest known cave in the Western Hemisphere. The known depth of the cave is 1560 m, length of its passages – 100 114 m.

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Cozumel Blowholes

Cozumel Blowholes

Two blowholes in lava fields. Usually the fountains are not too powerful and visitors often love to stand in them.

El Bufadero

Blowhole with an impressive, slanted fountain. Its fountain can be more than 10 m high.

La Bufadora

La Bufadora

Magnificent and very noisy blowhole that can be more than 30 m high if counted above the sea level.

Tehuacan stone snakes (tecuates)

Unusual and impressive travertine formations. These formations mark the lime deposits of ancient channels. The soil has weathered away leaving the hardened lime as enormous snakes stretching across the valley. These natural “channels” were used for the irrigation by local people before the coming of Spanish.

Magdalena Opal mines

Fire opal from Jalisco

The find of the near-unique lloviznando opal – a variety of opal with a near transparent, light blue color and phenomenal play of colors. Finds of these opals are very rare, but here are found also fire opals of exceptional quality.

Chicxulub crater

Northwestern part of Yucatan Peninsula, shaded relief image from the space. Rims of Chixculub Crater seen.

Ancient impact crater, with a diameter more than 180 km. One of the largest impact craters on Earth. It was shaped 65 million years ago and it is considered that this fall of bolide led to the great extinction of dinosaurs and many other animals and plants.

Ixtlán de los Hervores geothermal field

Ixtlán Geyser, Mexico

In this geothermal field earlier used to be up to 14 geysers (it is possible that few still exist near Salitre village). Now here are several artificial geysers. The tallest of these artificial geysers – Ixtlan Geyser – reaches a height up to 30 m.

Comanjilla Hot Springs

Group of hot springs, formerly – geysers. At the early 20th century the tallest of the 11 geysers – Geyser Humboldt – reached 1 m height. Today here are hot springs that have been transformed by the hotel and spa built over them.