800 CE – 1600 CE · 1 sites
Continent Record
Northernmost Known Site in South America
800 CE – 1600 CE
The Lost City of the Sierra Nevada — a Tayrona settlement of terraced plazas and circular foundations clinging to a jungle mountainside in northern Colombia, founded around 800 CE and still sacred to four indigenous communities who call it Teyuna, the heart of the world.