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Cenote

The cenotes (the Mayan via the Spanish are potholes or sinkholes or sinkhole collapse, filled with a layer of fresh water and sometimes a bottom layer of seawater they communicate with the ocean by faults , has explored and mapped . It reached its bottom at 318 m depth in May 2007 .

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The cenotes are produced by a process of dissolution and collapse of land limestone located above an underground network of caves and rivers. They are found both in picturesque places in the jungle ( Celestun , Yucatan ) in town ( Valladolid , Yucatn ).

In Yucatn, a ring of cenotes is disposed concentrically around the Chicxulub crater , as does one blames his training at the meteorite fell there about 65 million years - one that assumes it has caused (indirectly) the extinction of dinosaurs.

When the opening of a cenote is located below the surface of a pond (lagoon, lake, sea), it appears as a darker spot, it is called Blue Hole (Blue Hole ) or black hole (black hole) according to the perceived color.

Cenotes in the Maya

The Mayans believed these wells as a means of communication with the gods of the infra-world, the chasm representing a mouth. They were used as fresh water supply, but also as a place of worship in which offerings were thrown or sacrificial victims.