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Zacatón. Zacatón is a thermal water-filled sinkhole belonging to the Zacatón system - a group of unusual karst features located in Aldama Municipality near the Sierra de Tamaulipas in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. At a total depth of 339 meters (1,112 ft), it is one of the deepest known water-filled sinkholes in the world.
Sheck Exley (April 1, 1949 – April 6, 1994) was an American cave diver. He is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of cave diving, [1][2] and he wrote two major books on the subject: Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival [3] and Caverns Measureless to Man. [4] On February 6, 1974, Exley became the first chairman of the Cave Diving ...
Coordinates: 22.917°N 98.067°W. Show de Municipality in the State. Aldama is a municipality of the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas. According to the census of 2010, the municipality had an area of 3,672 square kilometres (1,418 sq mi) and a population of 29,470, including the town of Aldama with a population of 13,661. [1]
English: El Zacatón, a cenote (water-filled sinkhole) with free floating grass island (lower right), Municipality of Aldama, Tamaulipas, Mexico (22.9933°N, 98.1655°W, 209 m.). Photographed on 26 October 2004 by William L. Farr.
A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ponor, swallow hole or swallet. [1][2][3][4] A cenote is a ...
The beginning of the 1980s brought the first cave divers from the U.S. to the Yucatán Peninsula, Quintana Roo to explore cenotes such as Carwash, Naharon and Maya Blue, and to central Mexico where resurgence rivers such as Rio Mante, and sinkholes such as Zacaton were documented. [34] Entrance to Dos Ojos
Helena Wegner. May 10, 2023 at 1:46 PM. A 30-foot-deep sinkhole formed along an Oregon coastline inches away from one that appeared months earlier, park officials said. The second sinkhole, which ...
A cenote (English: / s ɪ ˈ n oʊ t i / or / s ɛ ˈ n oʊ t eɪ /; Latin American Spanish:) is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting when a collapse of limestone bedrock exposes groundwater. The term originated on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where the ancient Maya commonly used cenotes for water supplies, and occasionally for ...