Cenote Kankirixche

Cenote Kankirixche, whose Yucatec Maya name means yellow fruit of the tree, lies near the village of Mucuyche and the town of Abala, about an hour from Merida on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. It is a large karst cavern cenote roughly 90 meters across, reached by descending about 15 meters on a metal staircase to the water, whose underwater galleries drop through a wide depth range that different sources report as roughly 5 to 50 meters or, by another account, to about 53 meters at its deepest, both consistent with an unusually deep cavern system for the region. Its surroundings are lined with stalactite formations and tree roots reaching down into the clear water, and its wide passages make it a popular site for both snorkeling and cave diving. This entity documents Cenote Kankirixche specifically as a geological formation, an unusually deep karst cavern cenote near Abala reached by a staircase descent.