Dzonot & Toh
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Beneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula there is a waterworld. The cenotes — a Spanish word derived from the Mayan dzonot, meaning abyss — form a network of underground caves and rivers that run for thousands of miles through limestone, connecting the forest to the sea. They are the region’s only source of fresh water. They shelter species found nowhere else on earth. For Maya people, the caves are portals between the living world and the underworld, where the boundary between the sacred and the material is soluble in cavewater.
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