Case file · Folklore / legend
Lidar finds the Casarabe towns
In May 2022 a team led by Heiko Prümers published lidar scans in Nature showing that the Casarabe culture of the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia, built towns with platform mounds, causeways and reservoirs between about 500 and 1400 CE.
2022 CE · -14.85, -64.40 · status: official
The account
It was the clearest proof yet of 'low-density urbanism' in the Amazon, the kind of settlement that conquistador tales of Paititi and the Omagua had hinted at and twentieth-century science had denied. Position approximate, near Casarabe east of Trinidad.