Fall into deep cenote in Mexico - man had to be pulled up with ropes
On the evening of November 1, an extraordinary event occurred in the Región 100 area of the Mexican municipality of Benito Juárez: a man fell to the bottom of a cenote.
Arriving at the scene of the incident, firefighters found the victim at the bottom of the karst cavity. Due to the great depth of the pit, rescuers needed specialized equipment.
Specialists successfully evacuated the man to the surface using a rope system and rescue harnesses.
Context
The municipality of Benito Juárez, whose administrative center is the resort city of Cancun, is located on a limestone plateau of the Yucatan Peninsula with a developed karst relief. Due to the porosity of the limestone, there are practically no surface rivers here, and rainwater dissolves the rock, forming an extensive system of underground caves filled with fresh water.
When the vaults of such underground cavities collapse, cenotes - natural karst sinkholes - form on the surface. In Yucatan, they occur not only in the jungle, but also directly within residential urban areas (regions), where individual natural openings may be covered by vegetation or located among wastelands without equipped tourist stairs or fences.