The lost city Z of the Amazon

The Amazon is a topic that has created many legends, it has motivated epic expeditions such as that of Francisco de Orellana in search of El Dorado, by the way, a clarification: the river is named Amazon after the warriors of Greek mythology, since Orellana and Theirs were attacked by ferocious warrior women, there are many here who often say that they were actually long-haired indigenous people and that they were mistaken for women.

And it must be clarified that Orellana and his people were not stupid and they knew perfectly well what a woman was like and what the indigenous people were like. They had been living with various indigenous peoples for many years. In fact, several thousand indigenous people participated in the expedition. Furthermore, the story makes it very clear. that the indigenous people with whom they fought were led by women and I do not need to clarify that those people did not wear or need t-shirts, so the difference was clearly noticeable.

For this reason, I do not know if the explanation they give, that they had long hair and did not realize it, is to discredit Father Gaspar de Carvajal, who was the chronicler of Orellana, or is it because there are some historians who cannot admit that women They could be warriors or lead a combat group, I am convinced that they were right, that there were female leaders leading and some fighting, there were men, women all mixed together but that there were female leaders in front of them.

Orellana did not find El Dorado, although in very large towns there are more stories about lost cities. In the 20th century, the search for the lost city of Z became famous, which is the name given by Percy Fawcett, a British surveyor to an indigenous city that he believed that existed in the Amazon rainforest, specifically in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil, their belief was based on a document known as manuscript 512 kept in the National Library of Brazil that is believed to have been written by the Portuguese explorer João da Silva Guimarães, according to that document, a group of Portuguese discovered the ruins of an ancient city and described it in great detail without giving its location.

The problem is that the story sounds very fantastic and would be credible, for one detail, it is not because of the Statue, nor because of the hieroglyphs, nor because of the temple, it is because it mentions the arches, the arch is a complex architectural structure invented in Mesopotamia did not exist in America, it is strange that a civilization had discovered the arch and had not spread it to the rest, further south of Mato Grosso the Jesuit missions did use arches in construction, about 150 years before Silva's story Guimarães.

Silva Guimarães found himself with a lost and abandoned mission or was it really a city of a forgotten civilization, that was the big question, Fawcett the British tried to search for that city without result and ended up disappearing in the jungle, a few years later in the region where Fawcett was searching and found the archaeological site of Kuhikugu was near the headwaters of the Xingu River.

The place shows the existence of a complex culture where about twenty settlements and towns have been discovered in which up to 50,000 people could have lived together in all of those settlements found, but they are no more than large villages and they are also not very ancient, it is believed that the Kuhikugu culture flourished between the year 1000 and 1400 AD, in fact it is not even close to the city Z that Fawcett was looking for, there were no ruins of large buildings, no sculptures, no hieroglyphics

Years after the discovery of Kuhikugu, searching for lost cities in the Amazon was once again forgotten, but with new technologies they are shedding light on an astonishing reality about the past of the Amazon, Kuhikugu may only be the tip of the iceberg, but of course it must be To clarify one thing, looking for ruins in the jungle is very complicated, in a desert you can walk openly without problems and see into the distance, you can see hundreds of meters or even kilometers away a set of suspicious stones that lead you to a site archaeological, but in the jungle from 2 meters away you only see trees and undergrowth, progress is very slow and it is very difficult to identify suspicious characteristics of the terrain.

You can pass by a pyramid and not see it, to make matters worse the vegetation grows so quickly that in less than 100 years it can cover any structure, to all this, we have to add that the Amazon Basin is enormous, there are 7 million square kilometer 14 times the area of ​​Spain is almost double the area of ​​the European Union.

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