Cenote Dos Ojos
Tulum, Yucatán, Mexico
- Typische Tiefe
- 10 m
- Typ
- Cenote
- Niveau
- Intermediate
Notizen
Two interconnected sinkholes; cavern lines through speleothems.
Meereslebewesen
- Other
- bats roosting in air domes
- Reef fish
- blind cave fish (Mexican tetra), mosquitofish
- Invertebrates
- freshwater shrimp, cave isopods
Eigenschaften
- Cenote
- Cavern
- Overhead Environment
- Speleothems
- Halocline
- Freshwater
- Permanent Guideline
Beste Zeit
- Ideal
- year-round
Cenote Dos Ojos ('Two Eyes') sits north of Tulum on the Yucatán's Caribbean coast — two adjacent circular sinkholes connected by a passage decorated with stalactites and stalagmites. In January 2018 explorers connected Dos Ojos to the neighbouring Sistema Sac Actun, creating one of the longest underwater cave systems in the world (the combined underwater passages total ~347 km; Sac Actun is currently second only to Sistema Ox Bel Ha). The water is freshwater rainfall filtered through limestone, holding a near-constant 25 °C year-round; the typical guided cavern profile sits at 5–10 m. The cavern is sheltered from weather. Cavern lines are permanent and well-marked. Full cave penetration beyond the daylight zone is restricted to certified cave divers with their own guideline.
Bedingungen & Zugang
- Sicht
- 30–100 m
- Wassertemperatur
- 24–25 °C
- Strömung
- None
- Zugang
- Permit required
- Mindeststufe
- Open Water + cavern orientation for the guided cavern circuit; full cave certification required for penetration beyond the daylight zone
Standort
20.3239° N, 87.3878° W
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