Nestled within the mountains and dense jungles of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia’s Caribbean region lies an ancient Tayrona indigenous settlement and archaeological site. Known to the Tayrona people as Teyuna, this site is more commonly referred to today as the “Lost City.” The Sierra Nevada, revered as a sacred landscape by the Tayrona and other indigenous groups, is a place where the natural environment and human history are deeply intertwined. Teyuna is a living testament of the Tayrona civilization’s advanced understanding of Earth’s physical structure, processes, and materials, as they skillfully adapted their settlement to the challenging mountainous terrain and managed to integrate their way of life with the surrounding ecosystems.
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