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Mounds, henges, enclosures and effigies built from earth.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Formative to Regional Development (500 BCE – 600 CE) · Upano / Kilmope / Sangay
Upano north plateau Kilimope 400 platforms 10×20 m and 20 km road segments with garden ridges 600–980 m; Upano gardens.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Formative to Regional Development (500 BCE – 600 CE) · Upano / Kilmope / Sangay
Upano north plateau Kilimope 400 platforms 10×20 m and 20 km road segments with garden ridges 600–980 m; Upano gardens.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Earthwork
Regional Development (200–600 CE) · Upano (Kilimope) / Huapula fringe
Western raised fields of Upano at Villano River — 120 beds 40×8 m and 2 km canal.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Geoglyph
Formative (Early Formative to Upano contemporary) · Cóndor cloud-forest formative (pre-Mayo-Chinchipe)
Tepui-top forest geoglyphs on the Cordillera del Cóndor divide (1,250 m, 3°23′34″S 78°06′49″W per Ichigkat Muja National Park centre), bridging Ecuador and Peru Amazon headwaters: Rio Cenepa (Peru)…
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient village
Formative to Regional Development (500 BCE – 600 CE) · Upano (Kilamope–Sangay) / Huapula
Southern platform village of Upano at Sangay South — 8 platforms 40×25 m and 600 m causeway.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Formative to Regional Development (500 BCE–600 CE) · Kilamope (Upano) culture; Sangay phase Huapula
Lost Amazon cities (500 BCE–600 CE) under Upano forest—20 towns, 6,000 mounds and 25 km of roads revealed by 2024 LiDAR.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Late Formative – Classic (c.600 BCE–400 CE) Tumaco–La Tolita · Tumaco–La Tolita (Tumaco-La Tolita I-II)
Tumaco–La Tolita is the classic Late Formative Pacific lowland tradition spanning the Colombia–Ecuador border from Nariño (Tumaco) to Esmeraldas (Isla La Tolita / Pampa de Oro) at 5 m in…
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Pyramid
Archaic to Formative (Valdivia parallel) · Mayo-Chinchipe culture (Andean-Amazon)
Upper Amazon-Andean platform Santa Ana-La Florida (5300–2500 BCE) near Limón: 80×80 m stone spiral pyramid-mound with hearth plaza — earliest cacao (3300 BCE) and turquoise trade site.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Pyramid
Quitu-Cara / Integration Period · Caranqui / Quitu
15 earthen truncated pyramids with ramps, 10–20 m high, built by Quitu-Cara (Caranqui) people astride equatorial line, aligning to volcanoes Cayambe and Cotacachi with solar/astronomical purpose.
