A cenote is a deep well that connects to the sea or a lake through underground rivers.The cenote is a natural place that can be visited many times, because if one takes the precaution of listing each route or area visited, different routes can be planned and different areas on each dive. The blue cenote is separated from the lake only a few meters of land, 80 or 100 meters.
It is a sinkhole that flooded caves found in some deep, have collapsed due to the roof of one or more caves. There groundwater meet, forming a more or less deep pond. There are several types of sinkholes: open pit and underground or semi-open cave. This classification is directly related to the age of the cenote, cenotes being mature those that are completely open and the youngest who still retain their leadership intact.
Like many other geomorphologic structures, the cenotes are transient structures that eventually may end up stuffed and dried, becoming part of what is known as a paleo karst. The blue cenote is connected with the town of Bacalar by a coastal road that skirts the shore of the lake, whose depth could not be quantified, say it has a depth of 100 m., But agrees that other measures more than 90 meters deep. A cenote is a deep well that connects to the sea or a lake through underground rivers.
The blue cenote is separated from the lake only a few meters of land, 80 or 100 meters. The Cenote Azul de Bacalar, Quintana Roo, is a must place for divers who visit the region represents a real challenge because of its great depth and special features. It is an open cenote, whose immersion requires careful planning that will undoubtedly leave you with a huge satisfaction of having dived and come back wanting to cross it a little more. Located on the edge of the road, right at the entrance to the town of Bacalar. It is a site that offers the mystical beauty of the great cenotes, its shape resembles a small lake surrounded by forest vegetation, except in the mouth that communicates with the Laguna Bacalar.
The blue cenote is a little out of range for diving, because even without a spectacular visibility, offers intricate maze of roots and trunks intertwined and overlapping, holes of various sizes and rock formations on the walls with inclinations between vertical and negative with a background that remains hidden from the distance has to be inviting caves penetrated, provided they have expert guides and the right training. Within this vast expanse of water there are areas that allow some pools to dive very safe due to their shallow depth, although its funds offer no show of color, because the background is very varied and of a constant tone sand, full of formations extremely capricious limestone ranging from tiny ridges gently sloping with small guns and real walls, but never higher dimensions at 4-6 m, which give a fantastic show and allow us to enhance our imagination completing flight training with our own fantasy.