Huautla | |
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Municipality and town | |
Coordinates: 21°01′51″N98°17′06″W / 21.03083°N 98.28500°W Coordinates: 21°01′51″N98°17′06″W / 21.03083°N 98.28500°W | |
Country | |
State | Hidalgo |
Municipal seat | Huautla |
Area | |
• Total | 287.8 km2 (111.1 sq mi) |
Population (2005) | |
• Total | 22,521 |
Huautla is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 287.8 km².
Hidalgo is a state in East Mexico that is divided into 84 municipalities.
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometres (770,000 sq mi), the nation is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent state in the world. With an estimated population of over 120 million people, the country is the eleventh most populous state and the most populous Spanish-speaking state in the world, while being the second most populous nation in Latin America after Brazil. Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and Mexico City, a special federal entity that is also the capital city and its most populous city. Other metropolises in the state include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Tijuana and León.
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 22,521. [1]
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Charles William Steele, Jr., known as “Bill Steele,” is a cave explorer. He is a speleologist who has led and participated in expeditions to many of the longest and deepest caves in the USA, Mexico, and China. He has explored more than 2,500 caves across North America and Asia and has written two books chronicling his expeditions: "Yochib: The River Cave", and "Huautla: Thirty Years in One of the World's Deepest Caves.” TV shows such as National Geographic Explorer, NOVA and How’d They Do That? have aired programs on his expeditions.
Sistema Huautla is a cave system in the Sierra Mazateca mountains of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. As of 2013 it was the deepest cave system in the Western Hemisphere, 5069 feet from top to bottom, with over 40 miles of mapped passageways. By May 2018 the most recent report reported it as 53 miles long with 25 distinct entrances and a depth measurement of 5,118 feet from its highest known entrance to its lowest reached point, System Huautla is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere and the ninth deepest cave in the world; it is listed as the second longest at about 215 miles available tunnels compared to the Mammoth Cave complex at 405+ miles.
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