The Cueva del Espíritu Santo (also as Cueva de Corinto known) is a Salvadoran cave and national monument in the Morazan Department in El Salvador.
background
The cave is located at an altitude of 839 meters above sea level in a heavily forested volcanic landscape, two kilometers north of the municipality Corinto away. It is about 60 meters wide, 30 meters high and 20 meters deep and has several side chambers.
history
The first archaeological research was carried out in 1926. It is believed that around 200 people have already entered the cave 12th millennium BC Chr. was inhabited. The Hamburg archaeologist Wolfgang Haberland (* 1922) carried out studies on the numerous petroglyphs in the late 1970s and proved that the cave was due to the settlement of the Pre-Classic period Mesoamerican civilization belongs. The rock paintings from this period show that people already had boots made of animal skin and fur and also wrapped their feet in leather and pieces of fur.
landscape
There are around 200 Petroglyphs in the cave, each done with different colors, including red, ocher, black, green, yellow and white. The size of the individual rock carvings is very different, some of the human figures are up to 100 cm high, while the mostly smaller ones are only about 30 cm. General symbols are between 4 to 50 inches in height.
