Zona Arqueológica de El Meco
Maya port pyramid with a sea-facing temple, once a lighthouse guiding canoe traders offshore.
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This guide to the Zona Arqueológica de El Meco in Cancún follows a Maya trading port the builders called Beel'maan, the Trade Channel, whose serpent-carved pyramid still faces the sea route to Isla Mujeres. It traces the highway that split the ceremonial plaza from an unexcavated residential quarter still buried nearby, and an archaeologist's dig into whose bones actually lie beneath the temple. Stand at the base of El Castillo and look toward the channel to the island.
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