Highest piramid of Yucatán - Cobá, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, México - Superlatives on Waymarking.com

Warning: not that this is the big marathon (okay, not even a Zumba class), but take a breath and cheer before deciding to climb the 79 stone steps that make up the tallest pyramid in the Mexican Riviera Maya. Or what is the same, 42 meters from top to bottom. Or 136 feet. And it is that the conditions in which the construction of Nohoch Mul is found is not that they are the most conducive to climbing. Even so, here is another warning: take hold of the ropes that run through the center (see photo) and jump to climb it. Not a doubt.Once at the top, you can see in situ how the Mayans used them 200 years before Christ, when it is believed that the city ??of Cobá, to which the tremendous pyramid belongs , began to be built . The end for this civilization was clear: the higher, the closer one was to the gods. Although it competes in fame, tourists and selfies with its sisters from Tulum and Chichén Itzá , also in the Yucatán peninsula, Cobá not only houses the tallest building, but is also older and much larger. Seventy square kilometers attest to its dimensions.And that only 5% of its total extension has been discovered . The remaining 95% is made up of more than 6,500 buried structures. These are the data that archaeologists handle, since almost everything still remains under the thick jungle that populates this paradisiacal corner of the Mexican Caribbean. And in that everything fit temples, houses, palaces and other typical buildings of the Mayans, including the famous sacrificial altars . There is also no shortage of ball game spaces, with side walls to watch the game. Of course, nothing to do with any current sport, starting because the ball could only be touched with the hips; no hands and feet. Here, in addition, the one who lost was killed instantly. It was grace.

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Type of documentation of superlative status: https://www.elmundo.es/viajes/america/2017/02/04/5888917c46163fc8178b45f0.html Location of coordinates: N 20º 29.683 W 87º 43.216 Web Site: Not listed

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