Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · cave · The Quintana Roo cenotes

🇲🇽 Cenote Zacil Ha

Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico · part of Sistema Aktun Ha

The upstream end of Sistema Aktun Ha, two hundred metres up the road from Car Wash and connected to it along the main line.

Dives here
3
Deepest
20.5 m
Water
fresh
First · last
2022
Getting in
Roadside on QR 109. (20.2756, -87.4869)
Lines & sections
the basement

Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026

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

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1 map

35 m30 m34 m37 mCenote Aktun Ha (Car Wash)Cenote Zacil Ha (Luke's Hope)↓12.2 mAdriana's Room↓12.2 mLower White Room↓21.3 m↓18.3 mCell BlockDreamland↓9.1 mLotus RoomsRoom of Tears Basement↓15.2 mAlux's Key↓19.8 mChamber of the AncientsSiphon Basement↓19.8 m↓21.3 mChamber of Horrors↓15.2 m↓13.7 mCrystal Palace↓18.3 mRoom of Tears↓13.7 m↓9.1 mThe White Room↓10.7 mSatan's Methole↓19.8 mThe DrainN50 m
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Stick map · 110 stations · 1973 m of line · max 21.3 m

Zacil Ha is Luke's Hope on the upstream main line of Sistema Aktun Ha; no line map of Zacil Ha itself was found, so this is the Car Wash drawing (passage centrelines of the 1988–90 Coke / de Groot / Young survey, 300 ft scale bar) re-centred on Luke's Hope, whose open-sky section and position about 200 m west of Car Wash match the cenote. Car Wash lies east along the main line; upstream the line runs west to Crystal Palace, the Room of Tears and the Room of Tears Basement (probably the owner's 'basement'), and north to Adriana's Room and the Cell Block. Depths are the survey's floor depths converted from feet; the Zacil Ha pool outline is schematic. Positions are approximate.

Zacil Ha is a small developed cenote on the Tulum–Cobá road — it has a swimming platform and a zip line, which is not the usual introduction to a cave dive. Behind the pool it is the upstream end of Sistema Aktun Ha, and the main line runs from here through to the Car Wash entrance about 200 m away.

The traverse between the two is the point. Three dives here in a single day, 17 February 2022, to 20.5 m.

Dived here with

Erik Kim

Nearby sites

3 dives at Cenote Zacil Ha

Water temperature by month

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

Mean water temperature per month at Cenote Zacil Ha
MonthMeanDives
Januaryno dives0
February25.0 °C3
Marchno dives0
Aprilno dives0
Mayno dives0
Juneno dives0
Julyno dives0
Augustno dives0
Septemberno dives0
Octoberno dives0
Novemberno dives0
Decemberno dives0
  1. the basement 17 Feb 2022 · with Erik cave date17 Feb 2022 depth20.5 m time80 min water25 °C
  2. 17 Feb 2022 with Kim cave date17 Feb 2022 depth15.7 m time21 min water25 °C
  3. 17 Feb 2022 with Kim cave date17 Feb 2022 depth15.8 m time59 min water25 °C