Dive site · cave · The Quintana Roo cenotes
🇲🇽 Cenote Tajma Ha
Puerto Aventuras, Quintana Roo, Mexico · part of Sistema Tajma Ha
Its own small system north-west of Minotauro, feeding it but never physically connected — and the second most-dived cenote in this log.
- Dives here
- 17
- Deepest
- 16.2 m
- Water
- fresh · halocline
- First · last
- 2022 · 2026
- Position
- 20.4834, -87.2769
- Getting in
- Turn off MEX 307 here; the site is about 1.6 km further on an unpaved track. (20.4749, -87.2644)
- Lines & sections
- Sagrado linemain line
Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026
History
- r2 18 Oct 2026 Neutral geo_source; log titles removed from the aliases · Dennis Bakhuis
- 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
- Entrance
- T
- Jump
- End of line
- Shoreline
- Jump (no line)
- Depth
- Along the line
Traced from the 2017 Sistema Taj Mahal survey by Marcelin Nebenhaus (a photo of the banner at the cenote), cross-checked with Steve Gerrard's 2001 compass map (wetworx.nl) and QRSS/AMCS map 3540 for names such as Bil's Hole and the Points of Light airdome. It shows the main lines, the golden cavern loop past Cenote Sugarbowl, Steve's Loft and the line past the Deep Bones Room (23.8 m, the deepest point); most short secondary lines are left out. Depths are the survey's feet converted to metres, and the metre labels at ends and T's are the survey's distance from Cenote Taj Mahal; the survey's connection arrows from the basin to the main lines are drawn as jumps. Scale is from the banner's scale bar on a photo with some perspective, so positions are approximate; the bat cave and the halocline are not located on any source and are not drawn.
Tajma Ha is a system in its own right, sitting immediately north-west of Sistema Minotauro and draining into it. Water sampling shows the two share the same water; a collapse between them has defeated every attempt to find a way through. Sixty metres apart, hydrologically one cave, cartographically two.
The cenote itself is one of the prettier ones — several skylights, strong light beams through the fresh water in the morning, a well-decorated cavern zone, and a halocline for the cave dives behind.
Seventeen dives between February 2022 and February 2026, including part of the Cave 2 course. Longest 158 minutes.
The stored position used to be Avenida TajMa Ha, a street in Puerto Aventuras named after the cenote 5.6 km away, and sixteen dives sat on it.
Dived here with
Nearby sites
17 dives at Cenote Tajma Ha
Dives per year
Water temperature by month
Mean water temperature in °C; an empty month had no dives.
| Month | Mean | Dives |
|---|---|---|
| January | no dives | 0 |
| February | 24.0 °C | 13 |
| March | 24.0 °C | 4 |
| April | no dives | 0 |
| May | no dives | 0 |
| June | no dives | 0 |
| July | no dives | 0 |
| August | no dives | 0 |
| September | no dives | 0 |
| October | no dives | 0 |
| November | no dives | 0 |
| December | no dives | 0 |
- 10 Feb 2026 with Patrick date10 Feb 2026 depth16.2 m time158 min water24 °C
- 6 Feb 2026 with Kim date6 Feb 2026 depth13.4 m time65 min water24 °C
- Sagrado line 1 Mar 2025 · with Kim date1 Mar 2025 depth12.8 m time29 min water24 °C
- 25 Feb 2025 with Kim date25 Feb 2025 depth13.2 m time43 min water24 °C
- 25 Feb 2025 with Kim date25 Feb 2025 depth13.2 m time50 min water24 °C
- 23 Feb 2022 with Kim date23 Feb 2022 depth14.3 m time30 min water24 °C
- 23 Feb 2022 with Kim date23 Feb 2022 depth12.8 m time32 min water24 °C
- 23 Feb 2022 with Kim date23 Feb 2022 depth12.5 m time30 min water24 °C
- 23 Feb 2022 with Kim date23 Feb 2022 depth14 m time33 min water24 °C
- 23 Feb 2022 with Kim date23 Feb 2022 depth14.4 m time63 min water24 °C
- 12 Feb 2022 with Benjamin date12 Feb 2022 depth13.1 m time121 min water24 °C
- 7 Feb 2022 with Andrea, Benjamin, Mauro date7 Feb 2022 depth13.8 m time120 min water24 °C
- 5 Feb 2022 with Benjamin date5 Feb 2022 depth12.9 m time90 min water24 °C
- 5 Feb 2022 with Benjamin date5 Feb 2022 depth12.9 m time74 min water24 °C
Sources
- First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)