Image: Colombia is a country of spectacular views, some more well-known than others. On the outskirts of San José del Guaviare, one can find one of the area’s hidden gems: a city of stone. As El Tiempo of Bogotá reported, the complex is actually composed of five cities: Ciudad Perdida, Los Túneles, Las Murallas, La Puerta de Orión, and the Puentes Naturales. Each space is surrounded by lush vegetation; the area’s plant life forming labyrinths, passageways, and thousands of other possible paths for tourists to take. Even more spectacular, however, are the twelve-meter stones arranged throughout the site. The manner in which the stones are arranged suggest that the area was once home to some kind of civilization. Some of the stones appear to have been organized in order to create pathways, build bridges, or otherwise improve mobility within the space. As to the cities’ original inhabitants, however, there isn’t much information. While some believe the area to have been inhabited by indigenous communities, this theory has yet to be verified. On some of the rocks, there are traces of carvings which have also been attributed, again without confirmation, to nomadic communities. Read More: Link to Original Article
