Is there a hidden city in the Amazon?

Perched in a helicopter some 650 feet up, scientists used light-based remote sensing technology (lidar) to digitally deforest the canopy and identify the ancient ruins of a vast urban settlement around Llanos de Mojos in the Bolivian Amazon that was abandoned some 600 years ago.
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What is the secret city in the Amazon forest?

Many explorers have died searching for Paititi: the Lost City of Gold, and many became convinced that the city was hidden in the last undiscovered regions of the Amazon. The infamous journeys to discover Paititi were also what inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write "The Lost World.”
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Is there a lost city of gold in the Amazon?

1. Akakor. Somewhere in a part of the Amazon rainforest, according to a story, is a secret underground city overloaded with treasure. This place is Akakor.
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Are there still unexplored parts of the Amazon?

Today the potentialities of the Amazon River and its incomparable basin of some 2,722,000 square miles - over twice the estimated drainage area of the Mississippi and its combined tributaries - is still a vast region of undiscovered treasure.
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Is there a city in the Amazon rainforest?

Manaus is situated in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, 900 miles (1,450 km) inland from the Atlantic coast. The city, on a terrace overlooking the river, is traversed by several side channels called igarapés (“canoe paths”), which are spanned by bridges and divide it into separate compartments.
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How the “lost cities” of the Amazon were finally found



Does the city of Z exist?

The Lost City of Z is the name given by Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, a British surveyor, to an indigenous city that he believed had existed in the jungle of the Mato Grosso state of Brazil.
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Are there pyramids in Amazon?

Pyramids and canals built by an ancient civilization have been discovered beneath the forests of the Bolivian Amazon. LiDAR technology allowed archaeologists to see through the canopy to reveal hundreds of previously unknown structures and settlements from the Casarabe culture of ad 500-1400.
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Is there anywhere on Earth untouched by humans?

North Sentinel Island, Bay Of Bengal

This small island lies in the Bay of Bengal between the southern coasts of India and Thailand, making it extremely remote. Its inhabitants, called Sentinelese people, are the only human beings who have ever lived on the island and have long since refused to accept modern visitors.
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Are there any untouched places on Earth?

Several mountains in Himalayan country Bhutan are believed to be unconquered, namely the world's largest unclimbed mountain: Gangkhar Puensum. Unexplored areas around the world also include small islands, such as Pitcairn Island off of New Zealand, and Palmerston Island in the South Pacific.
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Is any part of Earth unexplored?

In fact, even when disregarding our expansive undiscovered oceans, reportedly over 65% of the whole earth is unexplored; think Greenland! So, despite our constant intrigue of exploration and adventure as a human race, we have a lot more to discover.
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Has El Dorado been found?

When the Spanish Conquistadors heard these incredible tales of a city of gold they tried every means possible to find it. Ultimately though, the Spanish, and the explorers and treasure hunters who followed them, never did find the fabulous treasures of El Dorado.
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Where is the real city of gold?

El Dorado was a mythical city said to be rich with gold, first reported in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. The rumoured location of El Dorado is disputed in different sources, but most commonly said to have been in South America.
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Is the cities of gold Real?

The Seven Cities of Cibola never existed any more than El Dorado or Quivira but the quest to find these imaginary places resulted in the destruction of very real ones, and that is the real story of Cibola.
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Is there humans in Amazon forest?

Indigenous groups such as the Yanomamo and Kayapo have been living in the Amazon for thousands of years, slowly accumulating a detailed knowledge of the rainforest and methods to subsist from it.
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What cities are in the secret?

The first was found in Chicago, Illinois; the second in Cleveland, Ohio; and the most recent treasure box was found in Boston, Massachusetts. The remaining nine treasure boxes have not yet been recovered.
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Does anyone live in the Amazon forest?

More than 30 million people, including 350 indigenous and ethnic groups, live in the Amazon and depend on nature for agriculture, clothing, and traditional medicines. There is also a clear link between the health of the Amazon and the health of the planet.
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Has all of Earth been explored?

There are still some places on Earth that have not been explored much by people. The ocean is one of these places. It covers more than 70% of Earth's surface, and it contains many types of ecosystems.
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What is the most undiscovered thing on Earth?

We are talking about the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil – specifically an area known as Vale do Javari – and it is the number one most unexplored place in the world.
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Which country most untouched?

Topping the chart is Russia with more than 15 million square kilometres of wilderness, identified as terrestrial or marine regions "free from human pressures, with a contiguous area of more than 10,000 square kilometres".
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What is the last untouched place on Earth?

To this day, no major settlements exist in the Darién Gap. Its only residents are the indigenous Embera-Wounaan and Kuna people, with an estimated 2,000 living in the area, getting around in dugout canoes.
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Is there an actual picture of Earth?

The Blue Marble is an image of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, from a distance of around 29,000 kilometers (18,000 miles) from the planet's surface. Taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon, it is one of the most reproduced images in history.
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How much land on Earth is unexplored?

Humans have a greater influence on the world's landscape than previously thought, according to a comprehensive new high-resolution analysis of human modification of the planet.
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Is any pyramid in India?

India. Many giant granite temple pyramids were made in South India during the Chola Empire, many of which are still in religious use today. Examples of such pyramid temples include Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur, the Brihadisvara Temple at Gangaikonda Cholapuram and the Airavatesvara Temple at Darasuram.
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Does India have any pyramids?

There is such a pyramid a few centuries older than the Saqqara pyramid in Egypt located in the town of Bareilly, in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Is there a lost civilization?

There are lost civilizations waiting just beneath the surface of even America's heartland. Just across the Mississippi river from St. Louis, Cahokia was once the largest known city in North America.
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