20.4944°N, 87.7361°W.
The Nohoch Mul Pyramid ("Big Mound" in Yucatec Maya) is the tallest pyramid on the Yucatán Peninsula at 42 metres, standing at the heart of the ancient city of Cobá in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Built between approximately 500 and 900 CE, the Nohoch Mul Pyramid rises in seven terraces of cut limestone with a single steep staircase of 120 steps on its northern face. The summit shrine preserves a small temple dedicated to the Diving God, a figure also depicted at Tulum on the coast 44 km to the east. Cobá controlled a network of more than 50 sacbeob — raised stone causeways — including one running 100 km west to Yaxuná, the longest documented Maya road of the period. The site was first reported by John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood in 1842 but not seriously excavated until Carnegie work in the 1920s.
The Nohoch Mul Pyramid is taller than anything else in the lowlands, anchoring a road system the length of an interstate.
| Landmark | Bearing | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| giza | 50.99° | 11,400 km |
| angkor wat | 340.45° | 16,037 km |
| nazca | 159.44° | 4,157 km |
| teotihuacan | 267.53° | 1,163 km |
| stonehenge | 41.21° | 7,968 km |
| gobekli tepe | 41.07° | 11,509 km |
| machu picchu | 154.80° | 4,094 km |
| easter island | 204.58° | 5,783 km |
| cahokia | 354.20° | 2,032 km |
| sedona | 309.27° | 2,842 km |
| mecca | 53.76° | 12,655 km |
| jerusalem | 47.44° | 11,610 km |
| vatican | 47.48° | 9,302 km |
| lhasa | 1.30° | 14,437 km |
| kailash | 11.82° | 14,164 km |
| uluru | 254.75° | 16,021 km |
| tiwanaku | 151.81° | 4,615 km |
| chaco canyon | 315.64° | 2,620 km |
| mt shasta | 313.31° | 3,987 km |
| levis stadium | 307.18° | 3,794 km |