Zona arqueológica de Coba

About this audio guide

This guide to the ruins of Coba, near Tulum in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, centers on Lady K'awiil Ajaw, a seventh-century queen who ruled the city for more than forty years. It traces her stone portraits at the Macanxoc stelae group, her war with the neighboring city of Yaxuna, and the raised limestone road she may have ordered built between the two. It also stops at Nohoch Mul, the tallest Maya pyramid on the peninsula, recently reopened to climbers after years of closure.