<P> Despite being a young city, Cancun has a memorial monument of its foundation on a replica of the old Airport Control Tower that resembles to its own date of foundation . The original Control Tower was a provisional wooden structure to satisfy the operative needs of the recently created airport . Some documents of the city mention that on that time there were no other formal buildings constructed in the city, being possibly the first built structure of Cancun's recent history . </P> <P> The old airport was located on the same part of the city that today corresponds to the Kabah Avenue . The tower is 15 meters tall, has a staircase of 45 steps, and has a base dimension of 5 x 5 meters . The memorial was first built in 2002, with the donations of Aerocaribe, a local airline, but the structure was damaged after Hurricane Wilma in 2005 . After the claims of the local people asking to rebuild the tower memorial, a new version was built on 2010, which was later abandoned without proper maintenance until Woox Pinturas, another local wood maintenance company, made a donation to restore the structure to its original appearance . </P> <P> There are some small Mayan vestiges of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Cancún . El Rey (Las Ruinas del Rey) is located in the Hotel Zone . El Meco, a more substantial site, is found on the mainland just outside the city limits on the road north to Punta Sam . </P> <P> Close by in the Riviera Maya and the Grand Costa Maya, there are sites such as Cobá and Muyil (Riviera) the small Polé (now Xcaret), and Kohunlich, Kinichná, Dzibanché, Oxtankah, Tulum, and Chacchoben, in the south of the state . Chichén Itzá is in the neighboring state of Yucatán . </P>

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