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A cenote (English: / s ɪ ˈ n oʊ t i / or / s ɛ ˈ n oʊ t eɪ /; Latin American Spanish:) is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting when a collapse of limestone bedrock exposes groundwater. The term originated on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where the ancient Maya commonly used cenotes for water supplies, and occasionally for ...
The Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza. The Sacred Cenote (Spanish: cenote sagrado, Latin American Spanish: [ˌsenote saˈɣɾaðo], "sacred well"; alternatively known as the "Well of Sacrifice") is a water-filled sinkhole in limestone at the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza, in the northern Yucatán Peninsula.
The Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico is home to thousands of naturally formed fresh-water pools. There are thousands of kilometers of caves in the area,” says Emiliano Monroy Ríos, a hydrogeologist ...
Sinkholes known as cenotes connect the cave systems to the atmosphere; often older cenotes contain turbid, stagnating water with oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor layers. [1] That includes El Zapote, where the oxygen content drops in the halocline to anoxia , [ 27 ] while the freshwater layer contains oxygen; [ 28 ] the saltwater layer may [ 27 ] or ...
Cenote Zací, January 2017. Cenote Zací (Spanish pronunciation: [seˈnote saˈki]) is a cenote located in the city of Valladolid, Yucatán. [1] The name Zací (“White Hawk”) comes from the Mayan settlement that was located there. [1] [2] It is where the Capul clan fought against the first conquistadors. [2] Valladolid was later founded in ...
In works compiled for the fight against idolatry, 16th-century Spanish sources mentioned 17 Maya caves and cenotes - nine of which have been found. [2] In his book Relación de las cosas de Yucatán, friar Diego de Landa described the Sacred Cenote. [3] Underground Maya archaeology began in the 1980s and 1990s. [4]
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By 1535, all Spanish had been driven from the Yucatán Peninsula. [29] Montejo eventually returned to Yucatán and, by recruiting Maya from Campeche and Champoton, built a large Indio-Spanish army and conquered the peninsula. [30] The Spanish crown later issued a land grant that included Chichen Itza and by 1588 it was a working cattle ranch. [31]