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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 ...
Blue Hole (New Mexico) – circular, bell-shaped pool east of Santa Rosa, New Mexico; 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 ...
Dos Ojos contains the deepest known cave passage in Quintana Roo with 119.1 meters (391 ft) of depth located at "The Pit" discovered in 1996 by cave explorers who came all the way from the main entrance some 1,500 meters (4,900 ft) away. The deep passages include the "Wakulla Room", the "Beyond Main Base (BMB) passage", "Jill's room" and "The ...
'Three Paths of Water'; short Ox Bel Ha) is a cave system in Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is the longest explored underwater cave in the world [3] and ranks second including dry caves. [4] As of January 2024 the surveyed length is 496.8 kilometers (308.7 mi) of underwater passages. [2] There are more than 160 cenotes in the system. [2] [5]
Río Secreto (English translation: Secret River) is a semi-flooded limestone cave system near Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. There are 38 kilometers of caves in the system, of which approximately 10% are used for ecotourism. [1] Currently, Río Secreto is protected as a nature reserve.
It is the second largest freshwater lake in Mexico behind Lake Chapala. The lake is renowned for its striking blue color and water clarity, partly the result of having a white limestone bottom. Like most bodies of water in the Yucatán peninsula, the lake is fed by underground rivers, whose regular open pools are cenotes. Because of the porous ...
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 ...