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LA MUÑECA FEA:
WORLD'S 4TH LARGEST UNDERGROUND ROOM


Text ©2017 by J. Pint

Photo by Gustavo Vela


Video on the Exploration of Salón la Muñeca Fea

(by Gustavo Vela)

Video Muneca Fea por Gustavo Vela

 


 

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America's biggest cave room is in Puebla, Mexico

by John Pint

Salón de la Muñeca Fea - Foto Gustavo VelaIn March of 2017, an international team of cave explorers used a laser scanner to measure a huge underground room in the Sierra Negra of Puebla, Mexico...and discovered it was the fourth-largest subterranean chamber in the world.

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La Salón de la Muñeca Fea
(also known as La Muneca)
was discovered at the end of
Tlamanictli (also spelled Tlamanicitli) Cave
in 1999
by
Groupe Spéléo Alpin Belge.
My thanks to
Richard Grebeude of GSAB
for his input.

The dimensions of this room were measured in 2017
by a
Riegl VZ-400 laser scanner
provided by the  3D Cave Project.
My thanks to Tim Allen and Andy Eavis for their help
and to Gustavo Vela for his great photos, video and excellent trip report.



THE FIVE BIGGEST UNDERGROUND ROOMS IN THE WORLD

1) Miao Room, China

2) Sarawak Chamber, Borneo

3) Cloud Ladder Hall, China

4) Salón La Muñeca Fea, Mexico

5) Hong Meigui Chamber, China

This story was  published by Mexico News Daily on July 8, 2017


    

 


 
 
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