http://www.playa.info/images/cobajungle.jpg

Roads in Central America B.C. looked much like the one in the image above. Most were about 10 meters wide and as long as 100 kilometers in lenght. The roads, or Sacbes as they were known by the Maya civilization can be walked today under a green tunnel of forest a canopy over your head while you travel watching amazing trees. The ancient road Sacbe were built by the Maya over 1200 years ago.

According to "www.playa.info" on Coba, a grand Mayan site that lies less than two hours from Playa del Carmen, and is different from other big sites in the Yucatan peninsula:

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One of the most fantasy invoking features of Coba is the many Sacbe that have been found on the site. Sacbe means White Road, and is just that; a stone paved road. The Maya built a network of roads, connecting major cities. These roads are a marvel of engineering. They go through the dense jungle in perfectly straight lines, they are wide and built up with walled sides. How the Maya could build these perfectly straight roads, with hardly any elevation points to make it possible to get your bearings, is one of many Mayan Mysteries. And why did they make them so wide, sometimes up to 10 meters, when they didn´t have any pack animals or wagons? The best guess is that they were made that way for ceremonial purposes. At Coba there are about 40 sacbes, some local, some heading deep into the jungle. The longest sacbe is 100 km, connecting Coba with Yaxuna, close to Chichen Itza in the state of Yucatan.
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According to "en.wikipedia.org":

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These indigenous civilizations are credited with many inventions in building pyramid-temples, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, writing, highly accurate calendars and the wheel. However, without any draft animals, the wheel was used only as a toy.
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Source(s):
http://www.playa.info/playa-del-carmen-info-mayan-ruins-of-coba.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian

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