With the temperature being as warm and humid as it is in the Yucatán Peninsula, anything you can do to ward off mosquitoes is worth it.
It seems as if everywhere you go around Chetumal, you can’t help but run into small swimming spots called, cenotes. Centotes look just like holes in the ground, filled with cool, fresh, bright blue water. They are perfect to jump into after a hot day, and they can pop up just about anywhere. Although it seems like magic, these cenotes actually form over years and years of steady rainfall. The ground in the Yucatán Peninsula is pretty porous, which means that when it rains, water easily falls through the dirt and rocks and gets stored underground in a type of holding tank called an aquifer. After many years of water eroding (wearing away) the ground and collecting below, the earth becomes thin and eventually cracks open, revealing the water below. There are over 6,000 cenotes in the state of the Yucatán and there is even a cenote in the center of a Costco parking lot in Mérida!
