Casa Cenote

Casa Cenote, also known as Cenote Manati, lies about fifteen minutes from Tulum town on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, between the Caribbean Sea and a dense mangrove forest. Rather than the enclosed cave shape of most Yucatan cenotes, it forms a long, narrow, snake-like channel roughly 230 meters in length winding through the mangroves, and unlike a purely inland cenote it connects to the open sea through a submerged tunnel about fifty meters long, mixing fresh groundwater with incoming saltwater. That mixed-salinity environment supports both freshwater and marine fish side by side and occasionally attracts the manatees for which it is informally named, while the exposed roots of mangrove trees reach down into the water along its length. This entity documents Casa Cenote specifically as a geological formation, a mangrove-lined karst channel near Tulum that connects Yucatan groundwater directly to the Caribbean Sea.