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Land of Sinkholes

  • July 5, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Mexico’s state of Yucatán has thousands of cenotes (si-NOH-tees), or natural sinkholes that form when a cavern collapses. Some are open wells, like the famous Chichén Itzá (Sacred Well), but they can also be fully or partly underground, or sit at land level like a lake.

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