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3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇨🇴 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.
🇮🇸 Iceland · Settlement
Renaissance cartography (1558 – 1693 official) · Venetian–Flemish cartographic
Large rectangular phantom south of Iceland on Zeno 1558 map — mapped for a century by Mercator then erased as Faroes misrender.
