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Colombia's Lost City gets long-term preservation plan (Gadling)

Filed under: Arts and Culture, Hiking, History, Learning, South America,
Colombia

Last year, Gadling's Aaron Hotfelder braved the mountainous jungles of
Colombia to visit Ciudad Perdida, the nation's famous "Lost City".

These remote ruins were built by the Tayrona, a culture that thrived from 200
AD to c.1650 AD. More than 250 of their stone settlements have been found in a
2,000 square-mile area. The Lost City is the largest Tayrona site known with
more than 200 structures over 80 acres. One highlight is a strange carving,
shown below, that appears to be a map of the city.

Unknown to the outside world until the 1975, the site now attracts an
increasing number of tourists willing to make the five-day trek, and this is
destabilizing some of the structures. Erosion and local narcotics traffickers
are also taking their toll, _Popular Archaeology_ reports.

Now the Global Heritage Fund has teamed up with the Colombian Institute of
Anthropology and History, which runs the Teyuna-Ciudad Perdida Archaeological
Park, to preserve the site. The area will be fully mapped and examined, and
they'll create a management plan to reduce natural and man-made damage to the
site. One good aspect of the ...

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