Series: 52 Episodes

Program Length: half-hour (22:50 min)

Program Description:

This large fresh water tropical wetland near tip of the Yucatan Peninsula is an important part of Mexico's freshwater system and the home to everything from turtles to crocodiles. Sue Ellen discovers that this area once surprisingly supported around 8,000 aboriginal people who harvested the apple snails and seeds of palmetto. She also journeys to the "underworld" through the deep water holes or senotes and cave systems that have been carved through the limestone bedrock…this watery world had great meaning in Mayan cosmology.