The Cabalpak Group consists of the multistory Edifice 5 built into the hillside
From the Chacmultun Group we followed a dirt road uphill to the Cabalpak Group. Although I did not realize it at the time, Edifice 5 is really a multi-storied building.
The travel writer Joyce Kelly explains: "Its lower story has twelve rooms, with many of the corbeled vaults intact, and with a façade that has been nicely restored...The front of the lower-level rooms is divided by a partly restored stairway in the center.
Climb the stair to the top of this lower section, and walk...to the right side and you will see a trail going uphill. As you climb this trail, you will see architectural remains on higher and higher levels. Only then can you appreciate that the structure is multistoried.
The first three stories are built on terraces on the side of a natural hill; the fourth story is on top of the hill itself. The upper levels are hidden from view by trees when you are standing at ground level or on the terrace above the lower story."
Joyce Kelly, An Archaeological Guide to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, p. 158
Edifice 5 rests on the summit of a hill intermediate in height between the high elevation of the Xetpol Group to the northeast and the lower elevation of the Chacmultun Group to the northwest.
The first story features beautiful five-member medial mouldings and banded split columns typical of Classic Puuc architecture.
A grand staircase, now partially restored, leads upward to hidden stories located further back on the hillside.