Tajma Ha cave system
Also known as Taj Mahal
Area: Puerto Aventuras
Length: 9,958 m
Maximum depth: 24.4 m
Exploration
1995 - Nancy DeRosa, Tony DeRosa, Steve Gerrard, Wayne Nefzger
First exploration. Known continued explorers: Bernd Birnbach, Kate M. Lewis, Dan Lins, Christophe Le Maillot, Germán Yáñez Mendoza, Bil Phillips, Daniel Riordan, Christian Thomas. Total explored/surveyed guidelines 23,150 ft. Landowner: Feliciano Tun Canul. Dates as given on the map: 1995-03 - 1995-05.
1996 - Expédition Yuc 96 (FMAS, FFS, FFESSM)
Survey, UIS grade 3.
1997-1998 - Expéditions Yuc 97/98
Survey: UIS grade 4.
2000 - Jeronimo Aviles, Vince Dekan, Vince Dekan, Steve Gerrard, Herve Gordon, Doug Hoyt, Marika Jasper, Kate M. Lewis, Lamont Machemer, Judy Pierson, Merle Pierson, Donald Reiland, Benja Sacristán, Steve Serras, Gonzalo Vaccaluzzo
2000 survey team; compass cave map by Steve Gerrard, March 2001.
2010-06 - A. Formstone
1996-2012 - FFS, Germán Yáñez Mendoza, Bil Phillips, Douglas Franquemont, Christophe Le Maillot
Exploration of Cenotes Box Ek and Ximbil.
2012-2013 - Anna Schabbauer, Martin Schabbauer, Bil Phillips
Data collection (survey) of Box Ek (1,246 ft long, 71 ft deep) and Ximbil (511 ft long, 56 ft deep); cartography 2013-2014.
2017 - Marcelin Nebenhaus
Survey and cartography, January - April 2017. Total surveyed underwater passages 32,669 ft; maximum surveyed depth 78 ft. Original explorers named on the map: Nancy DeRosa, Tony DeRosa, Steve Gerrard, Wayne Nefzger and unknown divers from the French Federation; further exploration by various. Dates as given on the map: 2017-01 - 2017-04.
Caves
- Buena Vista
- C6
- C7
- C8
- C9
- Cenote Ximbil
- City of Agre
- Cuzel west collapse (Cénote cultivé of the Yuc 96 Aktun Koh map)
- Mangrova
- Nachich
- Pica Piedra
- Points of Light
- Sacrado
- Sugarbowl
- Taj Mahal
- Twin
- Twin Cenotes (south)
- unnamed elongated collapse NE of Estrela
- unnamed pond between Taj Mahal and Estrela (east)
- unnamed pond between Taj Mahal and Estrela (middle)
- unnamed pond pair (brown and orange) between Taj Mahal and Estrela
- unnamed shaft (section C)
- unnamed small opening in the air bell between the Cuzel collapses
- unnamed small pool at the end of the passage SE of Taj Mahal