Crossword clues for cenote
Wiktionary
n. 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.
Wikipedia
A cenote (pronunciation: , or ) is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath. Especially associated with the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, cenotes were sometimes used by the ancient Maya for sacrificial offerings.
The term derives from a word used by the low-land Yucatec Maya — ts'onot — to refer to any location with accessible groundwater. Cenotes are common geological forms in low latitude regions, particularly on islands, coastlines, and platforms with young post- Paleozoic limestones that have little soil development.
Usage examples of "cenote".
Maya calls cenote and here the water is fresh and good although it is fed not by running streams but rather issues forth from the bowels of the earth.
In this city there is a great cenote and chichen in the Mayan tongue means the mouth of a well.
Vivero said there was a ridge running through Uaxuanoc with a temple at the top and a cenote at the bottom.
I was about to go back to the camp when I saw two men on the other side of the cenote looking at me.
It was just by the side of the cenote in thick vegetation, and when Fallon said, There it is!
On the wall nearest the cenote we found a doorway with a sort of corbelled arch, and when we looked inside there was nothing but darkness and an angry buzz of disturbed wasps.
Katherine called, and I looked up to see her poised on the edge of the cenote, silhouetted against the sun fifteen feet above my head.
The cenote lay below a ridge which was thickly covered in trees and Rider was worried about the problem of getting in while coping with air currents.
I stopped at the best one which showed a very clear view of the cenote and the surrounding forest.
When you come down again over the cenote with the stuff dangling on the end of the cable, I just haul it in to the side.
I waggled my hand in a circle to Rider and he orbited the cenote at a safe height while I studied the situation.
Every time I made a circuit I saw the green hillside behind the cenote coming closer until it was too damned close altogether and I thought the blades of the rotor were going to chop into projecting branches.
I trod water and organized the nylon cord, then struck out for the edge of the cenote, paying out the cord behind me, until I grasped a tree root at water-level.
There was very little room to move on the edge of the cenote because of the vegetation-there was one tree that must have been ninety feet high whose roots wore exposed right on the rim.
I sat on me edge of the cenote with my feet dangling over the side for nearly fifteen minutes before I did anything else.