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Top image: Stone structures found in the cloud forest near Quito, Ecuador. Source: IMP

Mounds and a stone water channel

San Francisco de Pachijal, Ecuador. about 800 BC to AD 1660. Known. Free

Known. Mounds and a stone channel for water were found under the forest.

The place is San Francisco de Pachijal, in Ecuador. Laser scans found more than 200 mounds and 100 terraces. Near the San Francisco River, researchers opened a sunken building with stone walls, an entrance, and a water channel. The style matches the Yumbo people, who lived in this north-western Andean region from about 800 BC to AD 1660.

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https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/lost-culture-ecuador-00102426