Huápoca

As Complejo Huapoca is a group of archaeological sites referred to in the west of the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which is about 18 km as the crow flies west of Madera is near the thermal springs of Balneario Huapoca on the eponymous river. In the various groups are partly to houses with walls in clay construction in the front of a cave, other groups comprise similar houses under elongated rock overhangs, which are formed by horizontal geological strata. Design and finds indicate to the colonization of the Mogollon and the Anasazi cultural tradition. Further investigations have not yet taken place at these localities.

The most important and accessible for visitors localities are:

• Cueva Grande, a very large and deep cave 3 km ( road ) west of the Río Huapoca and said Balneario (29 ° 11 ' 21 " N, 108 ° 20 ' 35" W29.189027777778 - 108.34316666667 ) with partial two-story buildings. About the opening of the cave flows down a waterfall.
• Nido del Aguila (29 ° 12 ' 28 " N, 108 ° 19' 55" W29.207638888889 - 108.33202777778 ) consists of several small houses under a rock overhang on two thirds of the height of a nearly vertical rock wall.
• Cueva de la Serpiente (29 ° 12 ' 50 "N, 108 ° 19' 59" W29.213861111111 - 108.33311111111 ) with Mud Houses in a cave, which has two inputs and thus provides a passage through a rocky promontory, accessible via a ladder in a crevice.

Other localities are located nearby. Among the most spectacular Cueva de las Jarillas, which has more of the pear-shaped granary belongs. The remote localities are usually in excellent state of preservation