Guatemala’s Underground
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Location: Alta Verapaz Guatemala
Functions: Unknown
Levels: Unknown
Tunnels to: Unknown
Notes: In or near the town of Lanquin in the departmental of Alta Verapaz, and 30 miles NE of Coban, a group of young men walked through a cave/tunnel entrance and 8 days later emerge into a large cavern illuminated by a volcanic cone far above [possibly SW corner of Izabal departamento – Sierra De Los Minas range?], where they see a fish laden subterranean river, beyond which the passage continued NW, some suspect to the Silpino Cave area near the town of Cayuga!?
Source: Penny Harper
Location: Cayuga Guatemala
Functions: Unknown
Levels: Unknown
Tunnels to: Unknown
Notes: Cayuga-#1 or Sil Pini cave is reached by leaving Guatemala City going NE on Highway CA9 en route to Port Barrios on the Caribbean coast, passing on the way the town of Morales and continuing to Cayuga village before the Tenedores turn off is reached. A few yards NE on highway CA9 from Cayuga village, on the west side of the road, is the entrance to Silpino Cave, which was discovered by highway construction crews while carving out a hillside, although locals later built a stone doorway set with an iron gate which at last word usually remains unlocked. A narrow passage continues north from the main room which then turns west. One report stated that a man from nearby Morales followed the passage, which later widens, SW for 15 days, after which he turned around. After 30 days in the cave, his body was swollen, he was sick and had to stay in a hospital for 2 years! Locals say that the tunnel was excavated by the Mayas [or at least parts of it extended by the Mayas!?], and that “stone idols” can be seen in some section.
Source: Penny Harper Cayuga-#2 cave is located one kilometer NE of Silpino [Cayuga-#1] cave, and is another cave/tunnel that is entered on a skirt of a hill far in from the highway, although the valley it is in CAN be seen from the highway. Several men entered the tunnel and walked for 6 hours. It is said to be part of the Silpino cave system [NE branch?] and has MANY branching tunnels, “stone statues of owls”, a “river with fish and a light cold wind [that] blows… there was a place where their watches stopped dead and all of their flashlights went out… once a “Gringo” went into that tunnel and never came out again” [at least not out of THAT entrance].; Penny Harper
Location: Guatemala City Guatemala
Functions: Unknown
Levels: Unknown
Tunnels to: Unknown
Notes: GUATEMALA CITY -February 23, 2007- Emergency crews Saturday found a third body in a 330-foot-deep sinkhole that had swallowed a dozen homes and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,000 people in a crowded Guatemala City neighborhood.
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Location: Pochuta Guatemala
Functions: Unknown
Levels: Unknown
Tunnels to: Tecpán, Guatemala; Cuzco, Peru
Notes: “Fuentes, who lived about A.D. 1689, and wrote an unpublished manuscript history of Guatemala, speaks of the amazingly large and ancient towns — inhabited by an unknown and long-vanished race — found there by the conquistadores. He says:
“The marvelous structure of the tunnels (subterranean) of the pueblo of Pachuta, being of the most firm and solid cement, runs and continues through the interior of the land for the prolonged distance of nine leagues to the pueblo of Tecpan, Guatemala. It is proof of the power of these ancient kings and their vassals.”
“He gives no hint of the uses to which these amazing tunnels – more than thirty miles long, on the basis of the old Castellón league – were built by these ancient races of old America.
“It may be, too, that the great tunnel of the Incas had a branch – an underground way leading under the forests – eastwards of Cuzco, in the very direction taken by Inca Tupac Amaru, his army and his host of camp-following refugees, in the late sixteenth century?
“Maybe, the fleeing Peruvians vanished into these mysterious tunnels and left only the whispering leaves of the trees of the dense green forests, as mute witnesses to their secret exits?”
Source: “MYSTERIES OF ANCIENT SOUTH AMERICA”, Harold T. Wilkins, page 176
Location: Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala
Functions: Unknown
Levels: Unknown
Tunnels to: Unknown
Notes: Near the town of Chajul, in the state or department of Quiche, locals tell of a nearby cave, in the second level of which is a seemingly bottomless shaft. In the lower room is a huge goblet carved [by Mayas?] out of solid stone. No comment as to whether the shaft is natural or artificial was offered.
Source: Penny Harper
Location: Silpino’ Cave Guatemala
Functions: Unknown
Levels: Unknown
Tunnels to: Unknown
Notes: The entrance of This cavern was right next to a major road. It is uncertain whether this road was the one running from Zacapa to Puerto Barrios or another similar road. However, this cavern was said to be an ancient MAYAN cave. Explorers have claimed that ancient Mayan artifacts and carvings can be seen deep within the cave, and at one point the electrical cells in some of the explorers’ flashlights were mysteriously drained.
One man claimed he traveled for many days through the passage and came out at the bottom of the central shaft of an extinct volcano. He could see a pinpoint of light entering through the upper cone high above, and an underground stream with strange subterranean fish meandered through the cavernous maze. Another man entered the cave and returned about a month later, his body swollen from weeks of wandering in the damp underground tunnels. These accounts at least suggest that the ancient Mayans had a definite interest in the ‘subterranean’ world
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Location: Tecpán, Guatemala
Functions: Unknown
Levels: Unknown
Tunnels to: Tecpán, Guatemala; Cuzco, Peru
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Location: Guatemala
Functions: Unknown
Levels: Unknown
Tunnels to: Unknown
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