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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. [1]
Cenote at Bolonchén, Mexico, used as a source of water, painting of 1842 by Frederick Catherwood. In the north and northwest of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, the cenotes generally overlie vertical voids penetrating 50 to 100 m (160 to 330 ft) below the modern water table. However, very few of these cenotes appear to be connected with ...
The region is pockmarked with natural sinkholes, called cenotes, which expose the water table to the surface. One of the most impressive of these is the Sacred Cenote, which is 60 metres (200 ft) in diameter [ 5 ] and surrounded by sheer cliffs that drop to the water table some 27 metres (89 ft) below.
The cenote is open to the sky with the water level about 26 metres (85 ft) below ground level. It is about 60 metres (200 ft) in diameter and about 48 metres (157 ft) deep. [1] A carved stairway leads down to a swimming platform. Cenote Ik Kil is near the Maya [2] ruins of Chichen Itza, on the highway to Valladolid.
The giant sinkhole, in Puebla state, started as a 16-foot hole but has grown steadily to its present size. (June 2) Growing giant sinkhole threatens Mexican homes [Video]
Bottomless Lakes State Park – Lazy Lagoon Lake, New Mexico, made up of three separate sinkholes; Cedar Sink – a vertical-walled large depression in Kentucky. Daisetta, Texas – sits on a salt dome, in 1969, 1981, and again in 2008, sinkholes formed in the area; Deep Lake (Florida) – a natural sinkhole in Big Cypress National Preserve in ...
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Called Dean’s Blue Hole (named after a Bahamian fisherman), this impressive marine formation, located in a protected bay west of Clarence Town, is the third-deepest blue hole in the world ...