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The Mayan Ruins: Tulum and Coba
T ulum was a walled city serving as a one of the last cities inhabited and built
major port for Cobá and is one of the by the Mayas; it was at its height between
best preserved Mayan sites and a major the 13th and 15th centuries and managed
tourist attraction. The two sites are situ- to survive about 70 years after the Spanish
ated along the east coast of the Yucatán began occupying Mexico. Old World dis-
Peninsula on the Caribbean Sea in the eases brought by the Spanish settlers ap-
state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Tulum was pear to have been the cause of its demise.
