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Coba Destination Guide

Explore Coba in Mexico

Coba in the region of Quintana Roo with its 1,167 inhabitants is a town in Mexico - some 743 mi or ( 1196 km ) East of Mexico City , the country's capital city .

Interactive map of Coba

Current time in Coba is now 10:44 AM (Sunday) . The local timezone is named " America/Cancun " with a UTC offset of -6 hours. Depending on the availability of means of transportation, these more prominent locations might be interesting for you: Mérida, Chetumal, Campeche, Dangriga, and Belmopan. Since you are here already, make sure to check out Mérida . We saw some video on the web . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Where to go and what to see in Coba ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Villas Arqueológicas ~ Hoteles Culturales

6:55 min by pmdonald
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5 Beautiful Villas located just one step of five wonderful archaeological sites: Teotihuacan, Cholula, Coba, Uxmal & Chichen Itza. ..

COBA - part 3 ~ (cc)

6:17 min by JCVdude
Views: 2391 Rating: 5.00

more than 50000 Mayans lived in and around Coba thousands of years ago, an amazingly advanced society, the Mayans were ahead of their time... ..


COBA History Part 5 [HD]

4:29 min by JCVdude
Views: 1489 Rating: 0.00

Sacbé (also Sakbé), plural: sacbeob, is a paved causeway built by the Maya in Mesoamerica. Imagine that in the dense jungle Mayans cleared a path between cities and built an elevated surfaced smooth r ..

COBA TOUR - Riviera Maya Part 1 (cc)

6:46 min by JCVdude
Views: 1458 Rating: 3.67

Coba was the second largest city of the Mayan Civilization. The site has 6500 buildings, only 5% have been excavated to date. This is our Coba tour with our guide Mario teaching us of this amazing arc ..


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Interesting facts about this location

Coba

Coba (Cobá in the Spanish language) 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. The 2010 Mexican federal census reported a population of 1,278 inhabitants.

More reading: Wikipedia Article
Located at 20.49 -87.74 (Lat./Long.); Less than 1 km away
Tags: Former populated places in Mexico, Maya sites in Quintana Roo, Tourism in Mexico, Visitor attractions in Quintana Roo

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