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Columibia's lost city Teyuna
Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia to many is seen as the hub of lost cities in South America.
However Columbia has also its share of lost cities also. One such city was discovered many years with stone ancient ruins in the jungle in the extreme North of Columbia. It has been alleged artifact discovered and looted from the site was sold onto the black market.
Ciudad Perdida meaning in Spanish "Lost City") is now a protected archeological site of an ancient city in Columbias Sierra Nevada. It is believed to have been founded about 800 AD, some 650 years earlier than Machu Picchu in Peru. This location is also known as Buritaca and Teyuna.
Ciudad Perdida was "found" in 1972, when a group of local treasure looters found a series of stone steps rising up the mountainside and followed them to an abandoned city which they named "Green Hell" or "Wide Set". When gold figurines and ceramic urns from this city began to appear in the local black market, archaeologists headed by the director of the Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia reached the site in 1976 and completed reconstruction between 1976-1982.
It is believed Ciudad Perdida was probably the region's political and manufacturing center on the Burtitaca river valley and may have housed 2,000 to 8,000 people. It was apparently abandoned during the the time of conquestidors or perhaps be the influx of strange diseases flooding from the old world? Ciudad Perdida consists of a series of 169 stone terraces carved into the mountainside, a net of tiled roads and several small circular plazas. The entrance can only be accessed by a climb up some 1,200 stone steps through dense jungle. A French associate of mine made an amazing trek to the site a few years ago and took these amazing photographs of the site.
To get there In 2005, tourist hikes became operational again and there have been no problems since then. The Colombian army actively patrols the area, which is now deemed to be very safe for visitors and there have not been any more kidnappings. For a 6 day return hike to the lost city, the cost is approximately US$300. The hike is about 44 km of walking in total, and requires a good level of fitness. The hike includes a number of river crossings and steep climbs and descents.
Today visiting the site is moderately safe as in past the site suffered a series of kidnappings of westerners by various guerrilla groups. However even today the site is is swarming with Colombian army personnel not just there to protect the site from looting but to protect visitors as well.
As interesting this yarn is my friends the question remains to the asked is there other lost cities out there in the jungles of Columbia waiting to be discovered with lost treasures?
Perhaps on day an poster will show us things simply amazing?
Crow
Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia to many is seen as the hub of lost cities in South America.
However Columbia has also its share of lost cities also. One such city was discovered many years with stone ancient ruins in the jungle in the extreme North of Columbia. It has been alleged artifact discovered and looted from the site was sold onto the black market.
Ciudad Perdida meaning in Spanish "Lost City") is now a protected archeological site of an ancient city in Columbias Sierra Nevada. It is believed to have been founded about 800 AD, some 650 years earlier than Machu Picchu in Peru. This location is also known as Buritaca and Teyuna.
Ciudad Perdida was "found" in 1972, when a group of local treasure looters found a series of stone steps rising up the mountainside and followed them to an abandoned city which they named "Green Hell" or "Wide Set". When gold figurines and ceramic urns from this city began to appear in the local black market, archaeologists headed by the director of the Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia reached the site in 1976 and completed reconstruction between 1976-1982.
It is believed Ciudad Perdida was probably the region's political and manufacturing center on the Burtitaca river valley and may have housed 2,000 to 8,000 people. It was apparently abandoned during the the time of conquestidors or perhaps be the influx of strange diseases flooding from the old world? Ciudad Perdida consists of a series of 169 stone terraces carved into the mountainside, a net of tiled roads and several small circular plazas. The entrance can only be accessed by a climb up some 1,200 stone steps through dense jungle. A French associate of mine made an amazing trek to the site a few years ago and took these amazing photographs of the site.
To get there In 2005, tourist hikes became operational again and there have been no problems since then. The Colombian army actively patrols the area, which is now deemed to be very safe for visitors and there have not been any more kidnappings. For a 6 day return hike to the lost city, the cost is approximately US$300. The hike is about 44 km of walking in total, and requires a good level of fitness. The hike includes a number of river crossings and steep climbs and descents.
Today visiting the site is moderately safe as in past the site suffered a series of kidnappings of westerners by various guerrilla groups. However even today the site is is swarming with Colombian army personnel not just there to protect the site from looting but to protect visitors as well.
As interesting this yarn is my friends the question remains to the asked is there other lost cities out there in the jungles of Columbia waiting to be discovered with lost treasures?
Perhaps on day an poster will show us things simply amazing?
Crow
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