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CANCUN There are some small Mayan vestiges of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Cancun. El Rey (Las Ruinas del Rey) is located in the Hotel Zone. El Meco, a more substantial site, is found on the mainland just outside the city limits. Close by in the Riviera Maya there are sites such as Coba and Muyil, Xcaret, Kohunlich, Tulum ...

CHACCHOBEN Chacchoben (Maya for 'the place of red corn') is the name of a Mayan ruin approximately 110 mi (177 km) south of Tulum and 7 mi (11 km) from the village from which it derives its name. Settlement by the Maya at the site is estimated at 200 BC, and the structures date from 700 AD ...

CHICHEN ITZA Chichen Itza ('at the mouth of the well of the Itza') is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucatan Peninsula, in the Yucatan state. Chichen Itza was a major focal point in the northern Maya lowlands from the Late Classic through the Terminal Classic and into the Early Postclassic period ...

COBA Coba is a large ruined city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is located about 90 km east of the Maya site of Chichen Itza, about 40 km west of the Caribbean Sea, and 44 km northwest of the site of Tulum, with which it is connected by a modern road ...

COZUMEL Cozumel (Mayan: Island of the Swallows) is an island in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen, and close to the Yucatan Channel. ozumel is a tourist destination for its balnearios, scuba diving, and snorkeling. The main town on the island is San Miguel de Cozumel ...

ISLA MUJERES Isla Mujeres (Spanish for Women Island) is one of the ten municipalities of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Located in the northeastern corner of the state. Transportation on the island of Isla Mujeres consists primarily of taxis or golf carts and moped scooters. There's also a Bus service that runs from the Downtown to the different neighborhoods ...

KOHUNLICH Kohunlich is a large archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located on the Yucatan Peninsula about 25 km east of the Rio Bec region, and about 65 km west of Chetumal on Highway 186, and 9 km south of the road. The Spanish name does not actually derive from Mayan but from the English Cohune Ridge where cohune palm grew ...

PLAYA DEL CARMEN Playa del Carmen is named for Our Lady of Mount Carmel, who is the patron saint of Cancun. The first recorded visitors to the beaches of what is now Playa del Carmen came during the Early Classic Period (a.d. 300-600) of the Mayan civilization. Then called Xaman-Ha, or waters of the north, Playa del Carmen was a rest stop of sorts for travelers ...

RIVIERA MAYA Riviera Maya, also known as the Mayan Riviera, is a tourism district following the coastal Highway 307 which parallels the Caribbean coastline of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, located on the eastern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula. This district historically started at the city of Playa del Carmen and ended at the village of Tulum ...

SIAN KA'AN Sian Ka'an is a non profit and non governmental organization biosphere reserve formed by a group of conservationists in the municipality of Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, whose mission is the conservation of the biodiversity. It has been a Mexican national park since 1986 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 ...

TULUM Tulum is the site of a Pre-Columbian Maya walled city serving as a major port for Coba. The ruins are situated on 12-meter cliffs, along the east coast of the Yucatan Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Tulum was one of the last cities inhabited and built by the Mayans, it was at its height between the 13th and 15th centuries ...

UXMAL Uxmal is a large pre-Columbian ruined city of the Maya civilization in the state of Yucatan, Mexico. It is 78 km south of Merida in the municipality of Santa Elena. Uxmal holds some of the most complex and beautiful examples of the regional Puuc-style architecture, and its magnificent pyramids and structures make it a popular tourist destination ...

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