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Image	Subject	Photographer	Licence	Source
	Gran Cenote near Tulum: clear turquoise water under a limestone overhang, looking through the cavern to the sunlit far pool	Ken Thomas	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
	Gran Cenote: shallow, clear water over pale rock beneath the cavern edge	Ken Thomas	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
	Gran Cenote's open pool ringed by limestone walls, ferns and jungle trees	dronepicr	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Cenote Dos Ojos: bright blue water under the cave ceiling with large flowstone formations	diego_cue	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Underwater in Dos Ojos: sunbeams slanting down through the cavern onto rocks (Commons description is generic; title, category and coordinates place it at Dos Ojos)	dronepicr	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Stalactite and flowstone formation inside the flooded cave of Cenote Dos Ojos (underwater photo)	Diego Delso	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Wooden boardwalk and swimmers in the cavern at Cenote Dos Ojos	eugene_o	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Cenote El Pit: half-underwater shot of divers below the surface, with the stairway and jungle above	Diego Delso	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Cave diver above the halocline in Cenote Chac Mool, light beams from the entrance (Commons: fresh water above, denser salt water below)	Waielbi	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Main entrance of Cenote Calavera seen from above, a ladder going down	Offthebeatonpath	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Casa Cenote north of Tulum: open turquoise channel lined with mangroves, two swimmers in the distance	dronepicr	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Snorkellers in the clear water of Casa Cenote	dronepicr	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Cenote Zacil-Ha near Tulum: small open pool with steps, thatched shelters and wooden railings	Roberto Carlos Román Don	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Cenote Car Wash (Aktun Ha) from the shore, lily pads and clear water under jungle trees	Offthebeatonpath	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Surface pool of Cenote Angelita south of Tulum	Offthebeatonpath	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Cenote Azul (Riviera Maya): shallow clear pools between rocks, palms and jungle	Gen. BaTBaiLeyS	CC BY 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Wooden deck at Cenote Nohoch Nah Chich, a cavern entrance in the jungle	Offthebeatonpath	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Cenote Kantun Chi: clear green-blue pool in the jungle with a wooden lounger	eugene_o	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Cenote Corazón Paraíso near Tulum: wooden dock on an open jungle cenote	Erik Cleves Kristensen	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Cenote Choo-Ha near Cobá: underground chamber with a ceiling full of stalactites over clear water	Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Map of the flooded cave systems along the Tulum coast (Sac Actun, Ox Bel Ha and others), from a 2020 PLOS ONE paper	Mark Hubbe, Alejandro Terrazas Mata, Brianne Herrera et al. (PLOS ONE 15(1): e0227444)	CC BY 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Tulum ruins: El Castillo on the cliff above the beach, Temple of the Wind God beyond	Bjørn Christian Tørrissen	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Aerial view of the Tulum archaeological site on the coast	Dronepicr	CC BY 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Playa Paraíso, Tulum, in soft late-day light	Erik Cleves Kristensen	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Beach beds under palm-thatch shades on a Tulum beach	eugene_o	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Avenida Tulum, the main street of Tulum town, at dusk after rain	Dennis Sylvester Hurd	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Nohoch Mul, the tall pyramid at the Cobá Maya site, with no one on it	Gautier Poupeau	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Aerial view over Sian Ka'an: the Muyil temple in the jungle and the Chunyaxché Lagoon beyond	Kanché A.C.	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Wild coastline in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve, looking north across a bay	Ken Thomas	Public domain	Wikimedia Commons
	Green sea turtle grazing on seagrass in Akumal Bay	P.Lindgren	CC BY-SA 3.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Cenote Ik Kil near Chichén Itzá, seen from the cave mouth: hanging roots above the round pool (for comparison)	Laredawg	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
	Cenote Suytun near Valladolid: the stone walkway in the underground pool, lit from above (for comparison)	David Stanley	CC BY 2.0	Wikimedia Commons
	El Castillo (Temple of Kukulcán) at Chichén Itzá	Daniel Schwen	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons
	West front of the San Servacio church in Valladolid, paper flags strung above	DaLoetz	CC BY-SA 4.0	Wikimedia Commons