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8 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Claimed ancient (Fawcett 500 BCE Atlant. survivors) vs real Xinguano 800–1600 CE · Fawcett: imagined Atlantean/Cartaginian survivors; real: ancestral Kuikuro (Arawak) Xinguano polities
Fawcett's Atlantean Z near Xingu 1925 vanished – 30 km away Heckenberger found real 50-ha Kuhikugu road-plaza network.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Late Pre-Columbian (800–1600 CE) · Upper Xingu / ancestral Kuikuro Arawak
Eastern plaza K10 of Kuhikugu cluster on Seki East — 12 ha plaza with ditch and 1.2 km causeway.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Xingu polyglot / Kayabi) · Upper Xingu archaeological tradition / Kayabi
Southern Amazon forest geoglyph province distinct from Acre-Urubamba: 14 circular and rectangular enclosures (120-320 m) on Xingu headwater interfluvia (260 m, 9°45′S 52°21′W), documented by Mendeley…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient village
Late Pre-Columbian (900–1600 CE) · Upper Xingu / ancestral Kuikuro Arawak
Central reservoir K12 of Kuhikugu at Seki isthmus — 80×60 m embanked reservoir and 900 m canal.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient village
Late Pre-Columbian (900 – 1650 CE) · Xinguano Arawak / Kuhikugu
Western Kuhikugu plaza K9 250×150 m at Seki Lake west — causeway 500 m ×12 m and reservoir 100 m under gallery forest; Xinguano.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient village
Late Pre-Columbian (900 – 1650 CE) · Xinguano Arawak / Kuhikugu
Western Kuhikugu plaza K9 250×150 m at Seki Lake west — causeway 500 m ×12 m and reservoir 100 m under gallery forest; Xinguano.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Lost city
Late Pre-Columbian (c.700 – 1600 CE) · Xinguano tradition (Kuikuro ancestors)
Upper Xingu plaza town 8 km east of classic Kuhikugu — ring ditch, 700 m causeway and terra preta, 14 ha, 900–1350 CE.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Xinguano 800–1600 CE · Xinguano / Arawak
Cluster of 20+ pre-Columbian settlements in Xingu with causeways 50 m wide, plazas, reservoirs, showing dense urbanism (population 50k) in Amazon before 1492, built 800–1400 CE, described by Michael…
