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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]
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.
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]
Looking down into the cenote. 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.
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The second deepest pitch is Patkov Gušt at 553 m (1,814 ft) in the Velebit mountain, Croatia. Lamb Leer , Somerset , England, was entered by a 25 m (82 ft) pitch as early as the 17th century. Hranice Abyss , Czech Republic, is the deepest underwater cave in the world, the lowest confirmed depth (as of August 2022) is 519.5 m (1,704 ft) (450 m ...