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3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇾 Guyana · Ancient city
Conquistador 1530–1740 map life; indigenous Wapishana seasonal flood memory kernel · Manoa? (Akawaio/Wapishana misheard) + Spanish/English cartographic invention
Raleigh's 200-mile Lake Parime (3.5N 59.5W) with golden Manoa — kernel is 5 km Rupununi savanna floodpan.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Hypothetical site
Holocene white-sand savanna pan + 17th c. cartographic copy of Parime onto Guaviare hydrology; Nukak occupation 12ka without lake city (no El Dorado horizon) · White-sand savanna seasonal pan 2 km with Nukak quartzite scatters (12ka rock art) misread as golden lake city 17th c. cartographic copy
El Dorado savanna pan 2 km on Guaviare–Inírida divide 165 m — seasonal blackwater lake drying to white sand, Nukak flakes but no harbour, La Lindosa rock art region.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Hypothetical site
Holocene savanna seasonal flooding; colonial cartographic projection onto Rupununi hydrology; pre-Columbian savanna field ridges (no Manoa horizon) · Wapishana savanna field ridges (500–1500 CE) projected as Manoa by European cartographers
El Dorado Lake Parime Uruao southern seasonal varzea 2000 km² — 0.3–1 m Aug–Oct, causeways 3 km are savanna ridges misread as Manoa walls.