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Cave
Name |
Dialect |
Translation |
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| Cueva Aak Kimin |
Maya |
...dead turtle cave. |
| Sistema Abejas |
Spanish |
...bee system. |
| Sistema Abejas Negras |
Spanish |
...black bee system. |
| Sistema Actun Chen |
Maya |
...cave of the well system. |
| Sistema Actun Hu |
Maya |
...iguana cave system. |
| Sistema Actun Koh |
Maya |
...puma cave system. |
| Cenote Ak Tulum |
Maya |
...turtle of Tulum cenote. |
| Sistema Aktun Sataal |
Maya |
...lost cave system. |
| Cenote Alkab Ha |
Maya |
...swift-moving water
cenote. |
| Sistema Altar Maya |
Spanish |
...Maya Altar system. |
| Sistema Altar Tigre |
Spanish |
...Jaguar Altar system. |
| Cenote Avicola |
Spanish |
...chicken ranch cenote. |
| Sistema Ayim |
Maya |
...crocodile system. |
| Sistema Baab Zotz |
Maya |
...swimming bats system. |
| Cenote Balche |
Maya |
...honey liquor cenote. |
| Entrada Caapechen |
Maya |
...two well entrance. |
| Entrada Camarón |
Spanish |
...shrimp entrance. |
| Cenote Caritas |
Spanish |
...little faces |
| Sistema Chac Luum |
Maya |
...red earth system. |
| Sistema Chac-Mol |
Maya |
...jaguar system. |
| Cenote Chan Ayim |
Maya |
...little crocodile
cenote. |
| Cenote Chan-hol |
Maya |
...little hole cenote. |
| Cueva Chen Am |
Spanish (Maya) |
...cave of the spider
well. |
| Cenote Chi chan K'uk'um |
Maya |
...little feather cenote. |
| Chu muk ch' o' |
Maya |
...one half rat. |
| Chuup Ich |
Maya |
...swollen eye. |
| Cenote Cocodrilo |
Spanish |
...crocodile cenote. |
| Sistema Corona |
Spanish (English) |
...crown or Covid-19
cenote. |
| Cenote Dos Ayim |
Spanish (Maya) |
...two crocodile cenote. |
| Sistema Dos Ojos |
Spanish |
...two eyes system. |
| Cenote Dos Palmas |
Spanish |
...two palms cenote |
| Sistema Dos Pisos (Ka'p'el
Nah) |
Spanish (Maya) |
...two floors cave system. |
| Dzonot |
Maya |
...cenote. |
| Cenote Eb |
Maya |
...(stair) step cenote. |
| Sistema Ek Be |
Maya |
...star road system. |
| Sistema El Puente |
Spanish |
...the bridge system |
| Sistema Esperanza |
Spanish |
...hope cave system. |
| Cenote Hatzutz Actun |
Maya |
...beautiful cave cenote. |
| Cenote Herradura |
Spanish |
...horseshoe ("shaped")
cenote. |
| Cenote Ich Kin |
Maya |
...sun face cenote. |
| Cenote Ich Tun |
Maya |
...stone face cenote. |
| Sistema Ich Tunich |
Maya |
...eye of the stone (face) system. |
| Cenote Ka'as |
Maya |
...ugly cenote. |
| Cenote Kan'pe Box Kin |
Maya |
...four black suns cenote. |
| Cenote Kiix Pepem |
Maya |
...sharp, spiked, or
thorny butterfly cenote. |
| Cenote Kolibri |
German |
...hummingbird cenote; is
Colibri in Spanish. |
| Sistema K'oox baal |
Maya |
...wild thing system. |
| Cenote K'oxul |
Maya |
...mosquito cenote. |
| Cenote Koxul ka'an |
Maya |
...(where the) mosquitoes
are born cenote. |
| Laguna Lagarto |
Spanish |
...crocodile lagoon. |
| Cenote Mancha |
Spanish |
...stain(ed) cenote. |
| Sistema Mol Balaam |
Maya |
...group of jaguars
system. |
| Sistema Mundo Escondido |
Spanish |
...hidden world system. |
| Sistema Nachan Ha |
Maya |
...far (distant) water. |
| Sistema Naranjal |
Spanish |
...orange grove system. |
| Cenote Ni Ha |
Maya |
...cenote nose water |
| Nohoch Ha |
Maya |
...big water. |
| Sistema Nohoch Kai |
Maya |
...big fish system. |
| Sistema Nohoch Kiin (Kin) |
Maya |
...big sun system. |
| Sistema Nohoch Nah Chich |
Maya |
...big bird house system. |
| Sistema Nohoch Pek |
Mata |
...big dog system. |
| Nuh(k)uch Actun |
Maya |
...many big caves. |
| Sistema Ox Bel Ha |
Maya |
...three paths of water system. |
| Cenote Ox Pal |
Maya |
...three children cenote. |
| Entrada Oxpechen |
Maya |
...three well entrance. |
| Entrada Oxpechen Two |
Maya, English |
...second, three well
entrance. |
| Cenote Pepem Actun |
Maya |
...butterfly cave cenote. |
| Cenote Por One |
Spanish (English) |
...a cenote named after
the present landowner. |
| Cueva Quebrada |
Spanish |
...broken, or convoluted cave. |
| Sistema Ramon |
Spanish |
...breadfruit (Ramon) tree
system |
| Sistema Sac Actun |
Maya |
...white cave system. |
| Sistema Sac Be Ha |
Maya |
...white road (of the)
water system |
| Sistema Sapo |
Spanish |
...toad system. |
| Cenote Shagadelic |
English (slang) |
...need I say more? cenote |
| Cenote Sinaan |
Maya |
...scorpion cenote. |
| Cenote So'sook |
Maya |
...tangled cenote. |
| Tatich |
Maya |
...headman, chief. |
| Sistema Tak Be Luum |
Maya |
...about (to enter) the
way of mud system. |
| Cenote Tam Chac Ha |
Maya |
...deep red water cenote. |
| Sistema Toh Ha |
Maya |
...Motmot (Eumomota
sp.) water system. |
| Dzonot Took |
Maya |
...burn(ed) jungle cenote. |
| Dzonot Tu Ha |
Maya |
...smelly water cenote. |
| Cenote Vaca-Ha |
Spanish (Maya) |
...cow water cenote. |
| Sistema Veladora |
Spanish |
...candle system |
| Sistema Venado |
Spanish |
...deer system. |
| Sistema Xibalba |
Maya |
...Maya underworld system. |
| Sistema X'tabay |
Maya |
...evil forest spirit system. |
| Cenote Xuux Kanan |
Maya |
...wasp (protected from,
or protector) cenote. |
| Sistema Yax Muul |
Maya |
...blue (or green) hills
system. |
| Sistema Yaxchen |
Maya |
...blue (or green) well
system. |
| Sistema Muul Ha |
Maya |
...hill(y) water system. |
| Cenote Zapote |
Maya |
...chicle tree cenote. |
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