NATURAL WONDERS

CENOTES

The cenotes, or underground rivers, are natural wonders created by water seepage through the limestone surface. They are a rich source of crystalline water and may be found only in the Yucatan Peninsula, Florida and the island of Cuba. The Maya considered these, the 'sacred sinkholes and endowed by the gods. His name for them is dzonot in Maya. 

reference to the Maya use of the cenotes were sacred places and sacrifice in their complex cosmology. It is a legend that is sacrificed maidens, throwing them into the water, dressed in fine clothes and jewels experts corroborated through a process of analysis of the bones (osteotafonómico), most of the remains found by archaeologists and divers were in Children 11 years and adult males. Generally, such remains are rituals such as cutting marks to disrupt or fleshing, burned bones and skinning marks. However, some historians and archaeologists say they also found bones of children and the elderly.