Scattered across the Yucatán Peninsula, near Mexico’s prime vacation destinations, are stunning turquoise swimming holes called cenotes. The name comes from the Mayan word “ts’onot,” meaning “hole ...

Cenote Ik Kil is a beautiful swimming hole that's sunken down into the land in the Yucatan Peninsula near Chichen Itza. Here, visitors can climb the stairs down into the water, where catfish swim ...

At Ik Kil Cenote, Paredes remembers how his career started. 8 min. The re-encounter. Jumping from a root, a balcony, a tree branch, with or without rain, Jonathan and Orlando keep diving.

The Ik Kil cenote (a cenote is a regional word for a sinkhole filled with groundwater) in Yucatán, Mexico is a circular, aquatic hole with a water surface that is 85 feet below ground level.

A cenote is a natural sinkhole filled with groundwater. This one, Cenote Ik Kil in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, is about 90 feet below ground level — and the water itself is around 130 feet deep.

Fearless athletes launch themselves from the edge of the world famous Cenote Ik Kil, a 90ft deep sink hole in Yucatán peninsula. They plunge from bright sunlight into the gloomy depths below, ...

The almost mythical Cenote Ik Kil sinkhole in Mexico will now host Red Bull Cliff Diving in October. October 17 – 18, 2014. Cenote Ik Kil, Mexico. View Event Info. Share. Cliff Diving.