El Meco Ruins
Ruins · Costa Mujeres & Playa Mujeres, Mexico
From the top of El Castillo the Maya watched the canoes coming and going from Isla Mujeres. The five-tier pyramid at El Meco is 12.5 metres high, the tallest Maya building on this coast, and its temple faces the sea, which is rare. Around it are altars, shrines and a main plaza from the port that thrived here between 1200 and 1500.
The site sits on the road between the Puerto Juárez and Punta Sam ferry terminals, so it fits neatly before or after an Isla Mujeres crossing. It is quiet and rarely crowded, has a small museum, and reopened with new visitor facilities after the same upgrade that went through the other Quintana Roo sites.
- Where it is
- Google Maps · Apple Maps · 2 min drive from All Ritmo Cancun Resort & Waterpark, the closest resort
All-inclusive resorts closest to El Meco Ruins
Drive times by road, assuming no traffic.
- 2 min drive0.6 mi
- Hotel Mousai Cancun All-Inclusive Adults OnlyCosta Mujeres · Adults only3 min drive1.3 mi
- Garza Blanca CancunPlaya Mujeres4 min drive1.5 mi
- 4 min drive1.7 mi
- SLS Playa MujeresPunta Sam6 min drive2.1 mi
- Finest Playa MujeresPlaya Mujeres8 min drive2.7 mi
- Excellence Playa MujeresPlaya Mujeres · Adults only9 min drive2.7 mi
- Atelier Playa MujeresPlaya Mujeres · Adults only9 min drive3.7 mi
- Hyatt Vivid CancunCancun · Adults only10 min drive2.5 mi
- Beloved Playa MujeresPlaya Mujeres · Adults only10 min drive2.7 mi
- Excellence Coral Playa MujeresCancun · Adults only10 min drive3.9 mi
- TRS Coral Hotel - Only AdultsPlaya Mujeres · Adults only11 min drive4.5 mi
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