Puebla sinkhole, Natural sinkhole in Zacatepec, Mexico

The Puebla sinkhole is a roughly circular opening in a farm field at Santa María Zacatepec, Juan C. Bonilla municipality. Its near-vertical walls of layered dark brown and grey earth and rock drop to opaque muddy brown water, with a pale greyish-white shallow shelf along the lower right inner edge. A section of white brick wall and a small concrete pad stand at the outer right rim.

The sinkhole opened on 29 May 2021 in a cultivated field in Santa María Zacatepec, Juan C. Bonilla municipality, Puebla, starting at 15 metres in diameter. By 12 June it had reached 126 metres across and 45 metres deep, and the Sánchez Xalamiahua family's house collapsed into it. Governor Miguel Barbosa Huerta arranged relocation and a new home for the family.

The sinkhole opened on farmland in Santa María Zacatepec on 29 May 2021. Neighbours reported hearing a loud sound before finding the pit, and some link it to a former jagüey, an artificial pond once in the area. The name given to it is simply El Socavón de Puebla.

The site lies in farmland at Santa María Zacatepec, in the Juan C. Bonilla municipality, about 20 km from Puebla de Zaragoza. The government has warned tourists to stay away and has banned drone flights over the pit. SEDENA personnel withdrew in September 2021 after three months of guarding the area.

On 10 June 2021 two dogs, Spay and Spike, fell into the pit and were pulled out alive a few hours later by state firefighters and Protección Civil. A Change.org petition gathered around 35,000 signatures demanding the rescue. On 22 June a drone flight spotted a third dog, but a morning inspection the next day found no trace of it.