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4 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.
🇪🇨 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 · Lost city
Formative to Regional Development (c.500 BCE – 800 CE) · Kilamope / Upano cultures
Upano Valley eastern plateau lidar city 12 km east of Sangay — twin platforms, 20 mounds and causeway-field grid 500 BCE–800 CE.
🇪🇨 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.