Cenote Calavera

Cenote Calavera lies near Tulum on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, a karst sinkhole whose name means Skull, given for the arrangement of its three surface openings, two smaller holes flanking a larger central one in a pattern resembling a skull's eye sockets and nasal cavity. The sinkhole formed through the collapse of limestone bedrock into an underlying flooded cave system, and its clear fresh water sits above a denser saline layer typical of the region's coastal karst aquifer. It is a popular site for cliff jumping through its openings and for cave diving into the connected passages beneath, which link into the same regional network of flooded caves as the Yucatan's other cenotes. This entity documents Cenote Calavera specifically as a geological formation, a karst sinkhole named for its skull-like arrangement of three collapsed surface openings.