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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.
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.
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.
Map of Mexico with Tamaulipas highlighted. Tamaulipas is a state in Northeast Mexico that is divided into 43 municipalities.According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the fourteenth most populated state with 3,527,735 inhabitants and the sixth largest by land area spanning 80,249.3 square kilometres (30,984.4 sq mi).
Exley died, aged 45, on April 6, 1994, while attempting to descend to a depth of over 1,000 feet (300 m) in a freshwater cenote, or sinkhole, called Zacatón in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. [9] [10] [17] He made the dive as part of a dual dive with Jim Bowden, but Bowden aborted his descent early when his gas supply ran low. Exley's body ...
Aldama Municipality, Tamaulipas This page was last edited on 27 December 2019, at 15:32 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
Rivers of Tamaulipas (2 C, 8 P) S. Sierra Madre Oriental (8 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Landforms of Tamaulipas" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of ...
The Sierra Madre sparrow (Xenospiza baileyi) is found in the transition zone between the Zacatonal and pine forests.Native mammals include the Mexican volcano mouse (Neotomodon alstoni), volcano harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys chrysopsis), and volcano rabbit (Romerolagus diazi), and Cryptotis goldmani alticola, a subspecies of Goldman's broad-clawed shrew.