Cueva de El ViolinLa Canoa

TamaulipasDeath Coral Caver 13, p. 31, 2003

AMCS Activities Newsletter 27, p. 24, 2004

AMCS ACTIVITIES NEWSLETTER NUMBER 27

Purificación Area Speleometry

Long Caves Length (m)1. Sistema Purificación, Tamaulipas 93,7552. Cueva del Tecolote, Tamaulipas 40,4753. Sótano de Las Calenturas, Tamaulipas 8,3084. Sistema Cretacico, Nuevo León 6,0655. Cueva de La Llorona, Tamaulipas 3,5406. Sótano de la Cuchilla, Tamaulipas 2,7167. Cueva del Río Corona, Tamaulipas 2,3018. Cueva Paraíso Difícil, Tamaulipas 1,7999. Sistema Manicomio Paralelo de Satanas, Nuevo León 1,639

10. Cueva del Borrego, Tamaulipas 1,464

Deep Caves Depth (m)1. Sistema Purificación, Tamaulipas 9532. Sistema Cretacico, Nuevo León 4653. Cueva del Tecolote, Tamaulipas 4244. Cueva de La Llorona, Tamaulipas 4125. Sima Chupacable, Nuevo León 4026. Sistema Manicomio Paralelo de Satanas, Nuevo León 3267. Sótano del Caracol, Tamaulipas 3018. Sumidero Anaconda, Nuevo León 2789. Sótano de la Cuchilla, Tamaulipas 207

10. El Hundido, Tamaulipas 186

revised from Peter Sprouse, Death Coral Caver 13, 2003.

Issues of the magazine are availablefrom the AMCS or the PEP. Formore information on the PEP, seewww.purificacion.org.

Number 303 (May 2002) of MéxicoDesconocido contains “The FantasticUnderground World of the South-west of Tamaulipas,” by Jean LouisLacaille Músquiz. Featured areCueva de El Abra, Grutas de Quin-tero, and the Nacimiento del RíoMante. Several other caves in theSierra de El Abra and the El CieloBiosphere Reserve in the Sierra deGuatemala are mentioned. The ar-ticle mentions that machinery usedin mining phosphates in Quinterohas caused much damage to thecave, part of the good conservationmessage in the article. An Englishversion of the article was found atthe magazine’s web site http://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/english/deportes/terrestres/.

NASA has approved a substan-tial (for caver projects, if not NASA)three-year grant for principal in-vestigator Bill Stone and others toenhance the sonar cave-mapper

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