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 The
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 of the times.
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