Cenotes (Bodies of Water)

Natural sinkholes of the Yucatan limestone that hold fresh water and that the Maya treated as sacred entrances to the underworld and places of offering, such as the Sacred Cenote of Chichen Itza and the Cenote Xlacah at Dzibilchaltun. An entry belongs here when it is a cenote with a recorded religious use. The group page lists these sacred waters together so that a reader can compare the roles that bodies of water play in religion and legend.