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13 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Inka Late Horizon to Colonial refuge · Hypothetical Inka / Anti
Hypothetical Salvación Ridge terraces in Manú — 2 km terrace claim vs colluvial benches.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Inka Late Horizon to Refuge · Hypothetical Inka mega-city
Hypothetical northern mesa plateau of Gran Paititi — 3 km natural sandstone outliers as pyramids.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) natural Meso steps + pre-Columbian field field 900 CE · Hypothetical Inca pyramid city (unvalidated) / pre-Columbian field field culture
Paratoari pyramidal mesas 150 m promoted as Paititi north — mesas natural mesas with 2 km field levee 0.5 m, Inka sherds at base but no summit stone.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) natural Meso steps + pre-Columbian field field 900 CE · Hypothetical Inca pyramid city (unvalidated) / pre-Columbian field field culture
Paratoari pyramidal mesas 150 m promoted as Paititi north — mesas natural mesas with 2 km field levee 0.5 m, Inka sherds at base but no summit stone.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Holocene landslide bench geology + modern Paititi projection onto Vilcabamba interior spur Late Horizon hypothesis projection onto natural bench geology · Natural landslide bench with colluvial stone-fronted pircas misread as Paititi interior citadel (no in situ culture)/ Late Horizon sherds downslope allochthonous Choquequirao wash
Interior Andes Paititi spur Pinco Pichu 2100 m — 30–50 m terrace lines and 10×8 m platforms under canopy, landslide benches with colluvial pircas, sherds allochthonous.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Quaternary geology Holocene wind tafoni onto Miocene andesite geology, no cultural horizon Holocene natural / fringe claim Pre-Columbian hypothetical · Natural andesite tafoni and wind hoodoos / fringe attribution to Masma culture (Ruzo unvalidated)
Marcahuasi second plateau amphitheatre 3950 m — 80 m hoodoo ring and 15 m 'Fortune Altar' mesa, wind-faceted andesite claimed as Lemurian carvings, geology tafoni.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) Late Intermediate ambiguous pre-Columbian hypothesis · Hypothetical Inca refuge / pre-Inca (unvalidated)
Pusharo west ridge Paititi hypothesis 1.5 km rectilinear terrace 0.7 m and 10 m depressions under montane canopy — 1450 CE charcoal but no stone, landslide bench suspected.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) Late Intermediate ambiguous pre-Columbian hypothesis · Hypothetical Inca refuge / pre-Inca (unvalidated)
Pusharo west ridge Paititi hypothesis 1.5 km rectilinear terrace 0.7 m and 10 m depressions under montane canopy — 1450 CE charcoal but no stone, landslide bench suspected.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Inka Late Horizon · Hypothetical Inka / Amazónico
Hypothetical Inambari petroglyph ridge — 22 boulder claim vs erratics and fault scarp.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) palm swamp levee 900 CE or natural · Hypothetical Inca lagoon city (unvalidated) / pre-Columbian field (?)
Paititi lagoon swamp third variant 1.2 km levee 0.9 m at Pusharo lagoon edge with 15 m mound-islands — 1600 CE charcoal but no stone, palm levee geofact.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) palm swamp levee 900 CE or natural · Hypothetical Inca lagoon city (unvalidated) / pre-Columbian field (?)
Paititi lagoon swamp third variant 1.2 km levee 0.9 m at Pusharo lagoon edge with 15 m mound-islands — 1600 CE charcoal but no stone, palm levee geofact.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon projection onto pre-Inca petroglyph horizon Pre-Columbian to Early Colonial hypothesis · Inca Vilcabamba hypothesis projected onto pre-Inca rock art (unvalidated) / Machiguenga
Most-photographed Paititi candidate — sandstone mesa terraces above Pusharo petroglyphs on Pantiacolla range, 670 m, no verified masonry.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) or Late Intermediate ambiguous Pre-Columbian hypothesis · Hypothetical pre-Inca / Inca refuge re-projection (unvalidated)
Paititi second ridge east of Pusharo — 2 km rectilinear terrace 0.8 m and three 12 m mounds under canopy, forest check 1400 CE charcoal but no masonry.