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Videotaping Cenote Zaci in Valladolid Yucatan

: Carol Chapman videotaping Cenote Zaci in Valladolid, Yucatan

Here I’m filming footage to be used in a future movie on Yucatan. I’m perched at the rim of Cenote Zaci in Valladolid. A cenote is a sink hole down to underground water through the limestone shelf that makes the surface of northern Yucatan. Valladolid is one of my favorite places to visit in Yucatan.

Videotaping Zaci Cenote in Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico

Carol Chapman videotaping Zaci Cenote in Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico Photo by John Chapman

Here I am videotaping the cenote, or sinkhole, in Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico. This Valladolid cenote, called Zaci, is featured in the Yucatan Travel Movie. There are many of these sinkholes throughout the state of Yucatan and its nearby state of Quintana Roo. The fresh water within the cenotes provided water for the indigenous Mayan people, because the northern Yucatan Peninsula does not have rivers, streams, or lakes–no surface water. Rainwater trickles down through the limestone earth of the northern Yucatan Peninsula to form underwater rivers. The cenotes provide openings to the underwater rivers. I love the deep turquoise color of the water.