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Huápoca — Street View

Explore Huápoca’s cliff dwellings near Madera, Chihuahua, with Casas Grandes context, verified free access, group limits and road-safety advice.

Huápoca is a group of archaeological cliff dwellings in the Sierra Madre Occidental near Madera, Chihuahua. Buildings of modeled earth occupy rock shelters that protected them from much weather and later disturbance. Some rose several storeys and include T-shaped doors, a feature also associated with the Casas Grandes tradition centred on Paquimé.

INAH places Huápoca within a regional inventory of more than 180 cliff-dwelling sites. The surviving rooms reflect communities adapting architecture to steep terrain, limited flat ground and local materials. They should not be described as one fortress or attributed to a named tribe without qualification; archaeological terms such as Mogollon and Casas Grandes describe broad patterns debated and refined by research.

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Where it is: Madera, Mexico · 29.1790383, -108.3203741

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