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Kuhikugu (Xinguano Lost Cities)
Kuhikugu Archaeological Complex · Xingu Lost Cities
Xinguano 800–1600 CE·Xinguano / Arawak·🇧🇷 Mato Grosso, Xingu Indigenous Park, Brazil
About
About Kuhikugu (Xinguano Lost Cities)
Cluster of 20+ pre-Columbian settlements in Xingu with causeways 50 m wide, plazas, reservoirs, showing dense urbanism (population 50k) in Amazon before 1492, built 800–1400 CE, described by Michael Heckenberger bridging Interfluvial tradition to myth of El Dorado.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- 800–1400 CE
- Period
- Xinguano 800–1600 CE
- Culture
- Xinguano / Arawak
- Purpose
- Planned towns with road-plaza system
- Excavation
- Excavation ongoing
800–1400 CE
Initial construction
c. 1468 CE
Abandonment
Location
Where it is
12.5500° S · 53.1000° W · 330 m
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