Cuidad Perdida (Spanish for “Lost City”) is an archaeological site in Colombia’s northern Sierra Nevada mountain range. It is believed to have been founded around 800 CE. Members of local tribes knew about it before the city was “re-discovered” in 1972. They call the city Teyuna and believe it was the heart of a network of villages inhabited by their forebears, the Tairona. Archaeological evidence matches their remembered history. Excavations have concluded Teyuna was likely the political and manufacturing center of the region, housing between 2,000 and 8,000 people, before being abandoned during the Spanish Conquest.
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