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====== Americas Projects ======

===== North America =====
==== Alva Blankenship Cave (USA / Virginia) ====

  * Authors: Philip Schuchardt and Philip Balister
  * Beginning: July 2004
  * Length: 5109.29m and Going!
  * Links to project map (doesn't work): [[http://www.vpicaver.org/ABC.pdf| map PDF 3mb]] 


==== The Caves of Dade (USA / Georgia) ====

  * Finishing the mapping of the known caves in Dade County, Georgia, USA. Mostly small puds and nerdholes that nobody else wanted to survey :-).
  * Authors: Marty Abercombie, Jerry Wallace, Jonny Prouty
  * Beginning: 2005 ('Caves of Dade' project has been around for much longer, however)
  * Length: Multiple caves, ranging from 30 ft. to over 1000 ft.
  * Links to project page / maps: Nothing online yet.



===== Middle America =====
==== Majaguas-Cantera, Cuba, Sierra de San Carlos, Pinar del Rio ====

  * documented 16503 m (year 2017, surveyed by Oriol Chavez, Vladimir Otero, Mariam Alonso, Julio Valdes, Gabriel García, Antonio Gonzalez, Jesus Pajón, Martin Sluka 2012–201, drawn by Vladimir Otero 
 
[[:projects:sistemacompletoconaltura2018concontorno.png|Sistema Majaguas-Cantera, Sierra de San Carlos]]\\
[[:projects:sistema_2018.png|Sistema Majaguas-Cantera 2017]]
===== South America =====
==== Karst area of Central, Bahia (NE Brazil) ====

  * Some small caves in northeastern Brazil: 
    - Gruta do Trono, 
    - Gruta da Catedral, 
    - Gruta Guambira
  * Field trip: December 2005
  * Authors:
    - Grupo Pierre Martin de Espeleologia (GPME) - http://www.gpme.org.br
    - União Paulista de Espeleologia (UPE) - http://www.upecave.com.br

==== Karst area of Upper Ribeira River Valley (SE Brazil) ====

  * Several caves in one of the most famous karst area in Brazil
    - Sistema Temimina / map :[[http://www.upecave.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=143&Itemid=156|zoomified map]]
    - Gruta das Aranhas / map:[[http://www.upecave.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=169:aranhas&layout=blog&Itemid=195|zoomified map]]
    - Gruta da Arataca / map:[[http://www.upecave.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=165:arataca&layout=blog&Itemid=187|zoomified map]]
    - Gruta da Lapinha
    - Gruta do Gastãozinho
    - Gruta dos Pedrôes
    - Gruta do Morro do Chumbo
    - and more to come..
  * Authors:
    - União Paulista de Espeleologia (UPE) - http://www.upecave.com.br
    - Grupo Pierre Martin de Espeleologia (GPME) - http://www.gpme.org.br
    - with contributions from several Brazilian Speleological Groups.