Cobá Ruins:
Cobá is a Pre-Columbia Mayan archeological site located in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, around 27 miles northwest of Tulum. The name translates from the Mayan to mean "water stirred (or ruffled) by the wind."
The site is thought to have been first settled between 100 BC and 100 AD, and abandoned around 1550, when the Spanish conquistadors first arrived on the Yucatan Peninsula.
The height of the city’s power and influence was during the Classical and Post Classical period of Mayan history, during which time the site is estimated by historians to have contained around 6500 temples and housed around 50,000 inhabitants.
Along with Chichen Itza and Tulum, Cobá is one of the Yucatan Peninsula’s most picturesque and popular archeological ruins. The site is around 30 square miles in size and is swathed in jungle. There is a system of around 45 ceremonial roads – known as sacbé in Mayan – radiating out from the main temples. Cobá contains the second highest temple in the Mayan world (the highest
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