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The Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, Mexico. Cenotes are surface connections to subterranean water bodies. [5] While the best-known cenotes are large open-water pools measuring tens of meters in diameter, such as those at Chichen Itza in Mexico, the greatest number of cenotes are smaller sheltered sites and do not necessarily have any surface exposed water.
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]
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. Ik Kil was considered sacred by the Maya who used the site as a location for human sacrifice to their rain god, Chaac ...
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 ...
Xplor Park (Spanish: el parque Xplor [clarification needed]) is a privately owned and operated theme park located in the Riviera Maya in Quintana Roo, Mexico.The park's signature offering is its ziplines, and it is one of the most-visited zipline attraction in the world.
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 ...
In 1978, geophysicists Glen Penfield and Antonio Camargo were working for the Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos as part of an airborne magnetic survey of the Gulf of Mexico north of the Yucatán Peninsula. [14]: 20–21 Penfield's job was to use geophysical data to scout possible locations for oil drilling. [5]
The main camp of exploration became Cenote "Far Point Station", located 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) from the coast, and 2.8 kilometers (1.7 mi) further inland than Main Base Camp situated at the main Nohoch Nah Chich Cenote entrance. During the Nohoch 1997 expedition, the 60 kilometers (37 mi) of total explored cave passage mark was surpassed.