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🇲🇽 Cenote Tortuga

Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico · part of Tortuga–Kim Ha

Connected to the Kim Ha line in 2004, and the pair never got a sistema name — 2.5 km of passage belonging to nothing in particular.

Dives here
1
Deepest
26.8 m
Water
fresh · halocline at 19 m
First · last
2026
Getting in
Turn off QR 109 here; the site is about 1.0 km further on an unpaved track. (20.2703, -87.4816)

Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026

History
  1. 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

22 m24 m23 m30 m29 m24 m24 m49 m38 mCenote Tortuga↓10 mMary I. LookoutT1 · Gateway↓17 m↓17 mFirst Strike Run↓17 m433 m →↓13 mRoundabout↓25 m229 m →323 m →↓24 m↓7 m↓24 m↓24 mSam's Short Cut250 m →↓25 mBelly Rubber · minor restriction↓25 m↓26 m↓25 mGlory Run↓24 mDeep Salt Passage↓27 m520 m↓26 mTime Saver↓24 m↓23 mMajor restriction · 448 m →↓22 m↓28 mAmigos Hideaway↓27 m↓14 m495 m → Breakdown pile · great flow↓18 mBlack Hills de la Tortuga619 m → End of orange line · Kim Ha↓24 mshell 1N50 m
  • Entrance
  • T
  • Jump
  • Restriction
  • Turtle
  • Shoreline
  • Jump (no line)
  • Depth
  • Along the line
Stick map · 178 stations · 2466 m of line · max 28 m

Traced from the cave-ha.com cave lines map (https://cave-ha.com/2023/05/10/tortuga-cenote/). Underlined depths in m; the scan stops where the numbers with an arrow are: they give the penetration from the entrance at that point and the line continues beyond the map, so no line ends are marked. Line starts at the surface tied to a log. The tie-off right after the entrance is a jump to the shallow east line. At T1 (Gateway), the first T, straight on stays in the shallow First Strike Run (fresh water, ~362 m, ↓17 m) and left drops into the deeper saltwater zone (↓24 m, Sam's Short Cut); a jump north leaves from T1 itself and, a few metres down the deep branch, a jump leads back east to the line around Belly Rubber. Passage names, the restrictions and the depths without a number on the cave-ha map come from the 1992–93 Cappelli/Ferra survey (feet converted to metres). The south line reaches Cenote Kim Ha. Positions are approximate.

Tortuga was joined to the Kim Ha line in the summer of 2004. The combined cave has never been given a formal sistema name, which is unusual and is why the system field here reads Tortuga–Kim Ha rather than something official.

2 488 m of surveyed passage run from this entrance, to 28 m, with the halocline at 19 m. It shares an access road with Vaca Ha and Kim Ha.

One dive, 11 February 2026 — 26.8 m, 134 minutes.

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1 dive at Cenote Tortuga

  1. 11 Feb 2026 with Patrick, Xavier cavedeco date11 Feb 2026 depth26.8 m time134 min water25 °C