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{{Short description|Rediscovered "lost city" in Colombia}} {{Infobox ancient site |name = Ciudad Perdida |alternate_name = Teyuna, Buritaca-200 |image = YAEL PHOTOS 898.jpg |alt = |caption = View of the central area of the city. Wooden structures once stood on the stone platforms. |map_type = Colombia |map_size = |relief = |map_alt = Map showing location in Colombia |coordinates = {{coord|11|2|16.79|N|73|55|30.69|W|display=inline,title}} |location = [[Magdalena Department]], [[Colombia]] |region = [[Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta]] |type = Settlement |part_of = |length = |width = |area = |height = |builder = |material = |built = |abandoned = |epochs = |cultures = |dependency_of = |occupants = |event = |excavations = |archaeologists = |condition = |ownership = |management = |public_access = |website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> |notes = }} '''Ciudad Perdida''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]] for "lost city"; also known as '''Teyuna''' and '''Buritaca-200'''<ref name="Mayorga-Hernández">{{Cite book|last=Mayorga Hernández |first=María Isabel |year=2022 |title=Teyuna: La Ciudad Perdida Tairona: Dibujos y levantamientos como aporte gráfico a su estudio |series=Proceedings of the XIX Congreso Internacional de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica |language=es |publisher=Escuela de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia |location=Cartagena, Colombia |url=https://repositorio.upct.es/bitstream/handle/10317/11266/43-tcp.pdf }}</ref>) is the [[archaeological site]] of an ancient city in the [[Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta]] of [[Colombia]], within the jurisdiction of the municipality of [[Santa Marta]]. This city is believed to have been founded about 800 AD. If so, Ciudad Perdida predates [[Machu Picchu]] by about 650 years. Ciudad Perdida consists of a series of 169 [[terrace (agriculture)|terraces]] carved into the mountainside, a network of tiled roads, and several small circular [[plaza]]s. The entrance can be accessed only by climbing up 1,200 stone steps through dense jungle.<ref>{{cite web |title=Explore the Site |url=http://ghn.globalheritagefund.org/explore.php?id=1305 |website=Global Heritage Fund |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908133823/http://ghn.globalheritagefund.org/explore.php?id=1305 |archive-date=2014-09-08}}</ref><ref name=Muse2004>{{cite magazine |first=Toby |last=Muse |url=http://www.archaeology.org/0409/abstracts/colombia.html |title=Lost City |magazine=Archaeology |date=September–October 2004}}</ref>
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