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Mexico

In the Mayan language… a cave entrance is  called a “cenote”, and there  are hundreds of them all  over the Yucatan peninsula, in Mexico. In the Quintana Roo, also called the Mexican caribbean you will find “the cave country” with miles of exotic white sandy beaches facing the Caribbean ocean, and a jungle full of cenotes with visibility of a 100 meters plus.

Before the Mayans, and  the Aztecs…. this peninsula was at one time a coral reef.  When the ice edge struck, the ocean level sank , and the reef became a rocklike sponge. Rainwater  flowed  through  forming  underground rivers decorated with stalactites formed from the dripping water. When the ice melted, the ocean level rose a few meters and the beautiful caves which  had  been formed filled up with seawater.

The Mayan people used some of the cenotes as  offering places, and they even had their own god for what they called the underworld.