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What is a cenote?

What is a cenote? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
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Probably the swallows were nesting in the cenote although the nests were inaccessible to view.
The floor of this cenote is near the watertable but not below it.
A cenote is a big cave filled with pure water, icicles, bats, fishes and long submarine caves.
The great Mayan cities were all built around cenote and the Maya regarded them as sacred.
A cenote, or sink-hole, is created when the roof of one of these vast caverns collapses.
Several of the natural waterholes or cenote within the area of the settlement became sacred places into which offerings were regularly deposited.

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