The term cenote is a Spanish rendering of the Mayan word d'zonot, "a hole in the ground".    From Wordnik.com.  [Did you know? Mexico has the deepest water-filled sinkhole in the world, in Tamaulipas.] Reference

The entrance fee into the cenote was about a dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mother And Teenage Son Travel The Yucatan] Reference

The Dzitnup cenote is beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valladolid] Reference

Click here to see ROV footage from cenote Santa Maria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - ROVs to the Rescue] Reference

ROV was carefully lowered down the side of the cenote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - ROVs to the Rescue] Reference

De Anda inspects a column drum found deep in a cenote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Bulletin Board] Reference

If they did, the cenote may have served some ritual use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Four] Reference

The entrance to the second cenote of the day (Melisa French).    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Two] Reference

A human skull wedged between rocks in a cenote (Melisa French).    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Cenotes in the Maya World] Reference

This is in a wall a good 40, 50 feet back from the cenote opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Four] Reference

"It's a jungle temple, a sacrificial chamber above a sacred cenote.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

"So the ecology officials just came from the cenote," Memo announced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Six] Reference

Again, the body is tucked far back away from the mouth of the cenote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Four] Reference

The bodies of the children were later thrown into a cenote, or sinkhole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watery Tombs] Reference

Equipment will be lowered into the cenote after all the divers are down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day One] Reference

All water in this region was underground except a few cenote-type pools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Our final lead turned out to be a cenote-cum-well in a remote cow pasture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Five] Reference

There is a cenote on our street used primarily by locals and some tourists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Page 2] Reference

The entry to the cenote looks fairly steep and tricky, but doable with a rope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Two] Reference

The other factor that has limited cenote exploration is the nature of the research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - ROVs to the Rescue] Reference

Treehole II cenote was simply a small hole in the ground -- and a very long drop to the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day One] Reference

It would be great to have another opportunity to explore this relatively large and very deep cenote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Six] Reference

Dionisio explains our predicament, and Chucho offers up another cenote, maybe ten minutes down the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Three] Reference

Although the visibility is extreme, the cenote is so large that you can't see across to the opposite side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Four] Reference

Do we leave that night with a feeling of spiritual invincibility, ready to take on any cenote we encounter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Five] Reference

We swim deeper back under a ledge, then another ledge, then another as the cenote widens in a series of successive steps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Four] Reference

The Promare team had a very different experience at a cenote they were brought to by the Yucatán State department of ecology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - ROVs to the Rescue] Reference

Archaeologist Guillermo de Anda and ARCHAEOLOGY's Kristin Romey have a look at a recently formed cenote (Jorge Pérez de Lara).    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Cenotes in the Maya World] Reference

In front of the enclosure is a treehole-type cenote with a series of metal pipes rising out of it and an electric pump alongside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Five] Reference

It too stands at one end of an alignment including several platforms and a causeway stretching to a temple on the brink of a cenote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing with Maya Eyes] Reference

After the dive, we head off to a nearby village, where friends of Dionisio suspect they have a cenote that Memo may be interested in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Four] Reference

Once you go down into the cenote and go to the bottom are there any tunnels that lead to dry ground and air that a person could survive?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Bulletin Board] Reference

In addition, he can invoke others to watch over a person before he or she enters a cenote or anywhere in the Underworld that spirits dwell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Yucatán - Day Five] Reference