More than a four-hour drive from Cancun, the Maya ruins of Uxmal preserve the grandeur of what was. The second-most visited archaeological park in Mexico, Uxmal was a seat of power in the Puuc region, the low range of hills in the otherwise flat grasslands of the Yucatan. Its ruins contain ornate carvings, friezes and sculptures embedded in the architecture, but at some point in the 10th century, construction on this thriving city stopped, and before the Spanish came, the Maya left.
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