Coba - Mayan ruins

Coba is located around five small lagoons about 40 km away from the Carribean sea at Tulum. A series of elevated stone and plaster roads radiate from the central site to various smaller sites
The site contains several large temple pyramids. The tallest, known as Nohoch Mul, is 42 meters in height and hence surpasses the great pyramid in Chichen Itza. It features several further pyramids and two well preserved ball courts.
Coba is estimated to have had some 50,000 inhabitants (and possibly significantly more) at its peak of civilization, and it covers about 80 square km.
The vast majority of Coba's major construction was built in the middle and late Classic period, about 500 to 900 A.D.