Tourist attraction
Cenote Zaci
Collapsed limestone sinkhole with a stone stairway spiraling down to a fern-hung flooded cave.
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About this audio guide
Cenote Zaci is a collapsed limestone sinkhole a few blocks from the main square of Valladolid, in Mexico's Yucatan. This guide follows a simple disagreement in the published record: how deep the water inside it actually is, with different sources naming different figures for the same hole. It traces how the cavern formed centuries ago and how Maya and later Valladolid residents carved stairs and diving platforms into the rock rather than ever settling on one number. Best heard standing at the stone rail above the water.
This audio guide was created using AI.