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Caribe Mexicano |
Archaeological Zones
Coba |
 Certificate of Segurity |
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| The archaeological
deposits belonging to the old one take care of of Cobá
they are found summoned to court near Tulum. It arrives
for the federal highway 307, taking a bypass toward new
Xcan, to some 47 Kilometers of Tulum. The one that was
one of the large cities mayas of the Periodo Classical
occupies a territory dean to the 70 square kilometers,
in the q they are found distributed 6 thousand 500 constructions
and monuments, what reveals the high development reached
in the course of its history that login around the 100-250
dc in the preclásico Late, and logs off in the
Posclásico Late, 900-1200 dc. |
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The name
of coba signifies in maya "Water Turbias", alluding
to surely to the five lakes of the region: Coba, Macanxoc,
Sacalpuc, Yaxlaguna, and Xcanh, the ones that should have
prominent importance for the development of the region
as fountain of water for the agriculture, this conglomerado
urban I become one of the places but important of the
civilization maya in the Peninsula of Yucatán,
and [sbrk] It reached its apogeo political, cultural,
religious and economic during the years 600-900 dc upon
arriving the Spaniards in the 1550, already had been idle,
presumiblemente displaced in importance by other cities
as Chichen Itzá or Tulum. |
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In coba are found near
45 roads or worn, acquaintances with the name of sacbé
(white road), that they related you take care of it
with other places as Yaxun (100 Kilometers) and Ixil
(19 kilometers), being estimated that they complied
with a ceremonial function but that economic. Almost
to the entrance of the archaeological deposit the known
construction is found as "the church", that
contains numerous figures and symbols.
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Also it can
be seen the assembly dedicated to the play of pelota,
in which is possible to observe the two "arches"
situated in the outright extremes inclined. By the presence
of skulls tallados in the base of the monument the sense
is inferred ritual of the play practiced by the mayas.
In the road that conducts to the pyramid Nohoch Mul (large
hill) the one that with their 42 meters of height is the
but high of the Peninsula of Yucatán and since
whose top the constructions of stone can be seen that
emergen from among the forest, there is numerous be them
that they register diverse events of importance for the
epoch in which they went facts. |
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In the region is a small
one populated, very near the archaeological place, that
counts on hotels and restaurants. To walk among the
ruins recuperated of the forest, to breathe the humid
air of the trees, to step them worn milenarias or to
rise the steep pending one of the pyramid, achieves
to approach the visitor to the culture of the old mayas.
It experiences the sensation that has not died, but
this asleep one among the stones and the forest, expecting
the favorable moment for renacer since the fund of the
times.
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