Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · cave · The Quintana Roo cenotes

🇲🇽 Cenote Nariz (Otoch Ha)

Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico · part of Sistema Sac Actun

A jungle cenote eight kilometres off the highway, on the Sac Actun system, with the dive splitting two ways at a T-junction seven metres down.

Dives here
6
Deepest
13 m
Water
fresh · halocline
First · last
2022 · 2026
Getting in
Shared turn-off for the Caracol, Chun Ya, Otoch Ha, Outland, La Concha and Fenomeno cenotes: leave MEX 307 at the 54 km mark and follow about 8 km of dirt track. (20.2922, -87.3829)
Also known as
Otoch Ha
Lines & sections
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Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026

History
  1. r2 18 Oct 2026 Neutral geo_source; log titles removed from the aliases · Dennis Bakhuis
  2. r1 10 Oct 2026 Imported from the personal log · Dennis Bakhuis

Site data © divelog-sites contributors (ODbL), descriptions and maps CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

1 map

81 m83 mCenote NarizT↓7.6 m↓12.2 mEl CruzeroLa Esperanza · 1433 mLa Muraya · 1783 m↓12.2 mTunel C · 1036 mTunel B · 792 mCenote Aktun-Hu · 549 m↓12.2 mSifon↓8.2 m↓10.7 mCenote Cueva Seca↓7.9 m↓6.7 mCenote Cabeza Azteca · 1458 m↓9.1 m↓7.3 m↓9.1 mTunel NE · 1522 m↓10.7 m↓10.7 m↓12.2 m↓12.2 m↓9.1 m↓3 m↓8.2 m↓8.2 m↓10.1 m↓4.6 m↓9.1 mN100 m
  • Entrance
  • T
  • End of line
  • Shoreline
  • Depth
  • Along the line
Stick map · 237 stations · 7838 m of line · max 12.2 m

Traced from the 2007 Aktun-Hu cave system survey (Alvarez, Attolini, Nava, MacKenzie, Bird, Maghelli, Roca; published by cave-ha.com as the Otoch Ha map). The survey has no scale bar or north arrow: scale comes from its penetration figures in feet from Cenote Aktun-Hu (consistent at 3.85 ft per pixel along nine line ends), and north-up was checked against the cave-ha Sac Actun system map (Nmag 2012). The T right below the cenote is at 7.6 m (cave-ha); right/west is the main line to El Cruzero and tunnels B, C and E, left/east runs 549 m to Cenote Aktun-Hu and on to Cueva Seca and Cabeza Azteca. Distances in labels are line distance from Nariz derived from the survey's penetrations; depths are the survey's small foot figures converted to metres and partly illegible, so treat them as indicative. Positions are approximate and the pool outline is schematic.

Cenote Nariz, also called Otoch Ha. Reached from the 54 km mark on the Cancún–Tulum federal road and then about 8 km of dirt track into the jungle — which, with three other cenotes on the same track, makes this a day out rather than a stop.

It is part of the connected Sac Actun complex. Maximum depth 12.8 m. A T-junction at about 7.5 m splits the dive: roughly 610 m of line on the main right-hand passage, and about 518 m on the left running towards Cenote Aktun Hu. Fresh water over a halocline.

Six dives, February 2022 to February 2026.

Dived here with

Kim

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6 dives at Cenote Nariz (Otoch Ha)

Dives per year

Water temperature by month

Mean water temperature in °C; an empty month had no dives.

Mean water temperature per month at Cenote Nariz (Otoch Ha)
MonthMeanDives
Januaryno dives0
February25.0 °C6
Marchno dives0
Aprilno dives0
Mayno dives0
Juneno dives0
Julyno dives0
Augustno dives0
Septemberno dives0
Octoberno dives0
Novemberno dives0
Decemberno dives0
  1. 15 Feb 2026 with Kim cave date15 Feb 2026 depth11.8 m time45 min water25 °C
  2. 15 Feb 2026 with Kim cave date15 Feb 2026 depth12.2 m time53 min water25 °C
  3. upstream 28 Feb 2025 · with Kim cave date28 Feb 2025 depth12.9 m time57 min water25 °C
  4. upstream 28 Feb 2025 · with Kim cave date28 Feb 2025 depth13 m time41 min water25 °C
  5. downstream 28 Feb 2025 · with Kim cave date28 Feb 2025 depth11.6 m time55 min water25 °C
  6. upstream 19 Feb 2022 · with Kim cave date19 Feb 2022 depth12.9 m time53 min water25 °C

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)