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archaeological deposits pertaining to the old one you take care of of Cobá are
located near Tulum. It is arrived by federal highway 307, taking a deflection
towards new Xcan, to about 47 Kilometers of Tulum. The one that outside one of
the great Mayan cities of the Classic Period occupies a territory dean to the
70 square kilometers, in the q they find distributed to 6 thousand 500 constructions
and monuments, which reveals the high development reached in the course of its
history that it initiates around the 100-250 dc in preclassic the Delayed one,
and concludes in the Delayed Postclásic, 900-1200 dc.
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The name of coba means in Mayan "Cloudy
Waters", alluding surely to the five lakes of the region: Coba, Macanxoc, Sacalpuc,
Yaxlaguna, and Xcanh, those that must have excellent relevance for the development
of the region like water source for agriculture, this urban conglomerate I get
to be one you important sites but of the Mayan civilization in the Yucatan Peninsula,
and reached its political, cultural, religious and economic apogee during years
600-900 dc. When arriving the Spaniards in the 1550, or had been vacated, presumably
displaced in importance by other cities like Chichen Itzá or Tulum.
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In coba they are near 45 ways or roads,
known with the name sacbé (white way), that they related you take care of it with
other sites like Yaxun (100 Kilometers) and Ixil (19 kilometers), being considered
that they acted a as ceremonial but that economic. To the entrance of the archaeological
deposit almost is the well-known construction like "the church", that contains
numerous figures and symbols.
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Also the set dedicated to the ball game
can be seen, in which it is possible to both observe "arcs" located in the ends
of inclined planes. By the presence of skulls carved in the base of the monument
the ritual sense of the games is inferred practiced by the Mayans. In the way
that leads to the pyramid Nohoch Mul (great hill), that with its 42 meters of
height is but the high one of the Yucatan Peninsula and from whose top the constructions
of stone can be seen which they emerge from between the forest, are numerous wakes
that register diverse events of importance for the time at which they were done.
In the region there is a small town, closely together of the archaeological site,
that counts on hotels and restaurants. To
walk between the recovered ruins of the forest, to breathe the humid air of the
trees, to step on the millenarian roads or to raise the pending zooming of the
pyramid, manages to approach the old visitor to the culture of the Mayans. The
sensation is experienced of which there is no dead, but that this sleepy between
stones and the forest, hoping the propitious moment to appear again from the bottom
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