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This is a Yucatan peninsula jungle-buried city, but local Maya have always known about it. Coba is famed for a missing king, Chac Balam (Red Jaguar) who disappeared after age 30, with no stone records marking his death. Perhaps he was captured by enemies. |
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The name Coba means "ruffled waters". This name fits because Coba was built among a group of shallow, reedy lakes. Until recently the place was frequented only by Maya hunters who occasionally burned incense before the stelae scattered among it's ruins. |
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Coba is not a single sight but a whole group of ruins linked to a central complex by long, perfectly straight masonry causeways called by the Maya term sacbe (white road). There are more than sixteen of these, but what the idea was behind their construction we cannot even guess! |
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