Tourist attraction
Cenote Tankach-Ha
Sealed cave cenote reached by a hand-built wooden spiral staircase through a single hole in the limestone roof.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cenote Tankach-Ha, a cave cenote near the ruins of Coba, turns on a small mystery: sources quote wildly different depths for the water below, and nobody has fully measured it. It traces how a sinkhole like this forms in Yucatan limestone, why Tankach-Ha stayed sealed while most cenotes collapse wide open, and how today's wooden staircase and platforms replaced the original scramble down. Listen at the top of the stairs, where the single shaft of daylight first hits the water.
This audio guide was created using AI.