Antonio Nuñez Jimenez, Cuban geographer, speleologist and archaeologist (Alquízar, La Habana Province 20 April 1923 – La Habana 13 September 1998)

Authored 1,665 papers and other works

A number of discoveries in the fields of Cuban geography and archaeology

Geography/Speleology

Discovered the Gran Caverna de Santo Tomas (1954), the second largest cave system in American continent with archaeological and paleontological discoveries

Archaeology

Discovered the eldest culture of the Cuban archipelago and one of most ancient of Caribbean region in the caves of Seboruco (Mayarí, Holguín) 1939

Studied the Guanahatabey culture in El guanahatabey, troglodita indocubano (1946) 

Discovered the Cuba’s biggest archeological monument at Guaney (Camaguey Province) consisting of a mound of earth, rocks and ceramic fragments that served as an altar for the Tainos

HONORS

Jimenezia Vandel 1973 (Crustacea)

Jimeneziella Avram 1970 (Arachnida)