Cenote Angelita
A circular cenote dropping to 60 m, with a hydrogen sulfide cloud at 30 m that looks like a cloud with trunks and branches reaching through it.
- Experienced
- Cenote
Open Water≤18 m
Cuevitas
Dive site in Riviera Maya & Cenotes, Mexico
Shallow 8-14 m Puerto Aventuras reef of coral-covered swim-throughs and overhangs, with turtles, stingrays and barracudas.
- Usual dive
- 14 m
- Deepest point
- 14 m
- Level
- Open Water
- Best months
- Nov–Apr
- Current
- Mild
The dive
A reef dive. Known for turtles, stingrays and barracuda.
Who it's for
Open Water≤18 mSource: prodiveinternational.com
Recommended minimum: Open Water (PADI Open Water, CMAS/FFESSM N1).
Conditions
- Dive type
- Reef
- Environment
- Open water
- Water
- Sea water
What you might see
- Turtles
- Stingrays
- Barracuda
- Snappers
Season in Riviera Maya & Cenotes
- J
- F
- M
- A
- M
- J
- J
- A
- S
- O
- N
- D
- Best
- Good
- Possible
- Closed
- Not documented yet
Best months: Nov–Apr.
Source: bluewaterdivetravel.comWhere is the Riviera Maya & Cenotes?
The point shows the Riviera Maya & Cenotes area, not the exact dive site.
More dives in Riviera Maya & Cenotes
Cenote Calavera (Temple of Doom)
Jump in through a round hole in the rock, circle a central sediment hill and move through three different halocline layers.
- Advanced
- Cenote
The Pit (El Pit)
Sun beams pierce the shaft as you sink through a shallow halocline to a hydrogen sulfide cloud at 30 m with tree branches protruding.
- Experienced
- Cenote
Casa Cenote
An open-overhead dive along a winding mangrove-lined river for about 228 m, with platys, guppies and mollies among the roots.
- Open Water
- Cenote
- Crocodiles
Cenote Chac Mool
Large rooms with a halocline, an air dome and what Pro Dive calls the largest underwater stalactite in the world; laser-like light on sunny days.
- Advanced
- Cenote
Cenote Dos Ojos
Two cavern routes, the Barbie line and the Batcave, where you surface in an air dome filled with bats.
- Advanced
- Cenote
- Turtles
About this page
Values marked “Estimated” come from our original catalogue and are being checked against published sources one by one. Sourced values link to where they come from. Conditions change with the season, the weather and the tide: confirm with a local dive centre before you dive.
Photo credits
- Cenote Angelita dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Offthebeatonpath, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cenote Calavera dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Offthebeatonpath, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cenote The Pit dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Serge Melki from Indianapolis, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Casa Cenote dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, dronepicr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cenote Chac Mool dive site, Riviera Maya Cenotes, Waielbi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Dos Ojos Cenote dive site, Riviera Maya, Biomanu58, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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