Editing Ciudad Perdida (section)

==Modern discovery==
Ciudad Perdida was discovered in 1972 by Los Sepúlvedas, a group of local treasure looters.

Los Sepúlvedas were a small family of looters living in Colombia. The family often went hunting in the forests, and one day they shot a wild turkey. While retrieving the turkey, they noticed it had fallen on a series of stone steps rising up the mountainside. They climbed up the stone steps and discovered an abandoned city, which they named "Green Hell" or "Wide Set". After the murder of one of the Sepúlveda sons at the site of Ciudad Perdida, fights broke out among the looters.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.colombia.co/en/colombia-travel/unique-places/everything-need-know-lost-city/|title = Everything you need to know about the Lost City|date = 3 August 2015}}</ref> 

Soon after, gold figures and ceramic urns from Ciudad Perdida began to appear on the local black market.<ref name="Muse2004" /> This alerted archaeologists, and a team led by the director of the [[Instituto Colombiano de Antropología]], reached the site in 1976. The site was reconstructed between 1976 and 1982.<ref name="Official-guide">{{cite book |last1=Giraldo Peláez |first1=Santiago |last2=Fernanda Herrera |first2=Luisa |date=July 2019 |title=Parque Arqueológico-Teyuna Ciudad Perdida: Guía para visitantes |edition=second |language=es |publisher=Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia |location=Bogotá, Colombia |isbn=978-958-8852-76-8 |url=https://www.academia.edu/2561922/Guia_de_Teyuna_Ciudad_Perdida |access-date=8 February 2024 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Although La Ciudad Perdida is an impressive site, it is not the only one of its kind. Only about 30–40% of the sites in the Sierra Nevada region have been explored. However, thanks to recent widespread [[lidar]] access, more and more of these sites are being discovered.<ref name="Official-guide" /><ref name="Muse2004" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Soto Holguín |first=Alvaro |year=2006 |title=The Lost City of the Tayronas |language=en |publisher=I/M Editores |place=Bogotá, Colombia |isbn=978-958-9343-03-6 }}</ref>

Members of local tribes – notably the [[Kogi people]] – have stated that they visited the site of Ciudad Perdida regularly before it was widely reported, but had kept quiet about it.<ref name="Muse-2004">{{Cite magazine|last=Muse |first=Toby |year=2004 |title=Lost City |magazine=Archaeology |volume=57 |issue=5 |pages=18–23 |url=https://archive.archaeology.org/0409/abstracts/colombia.html }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Campo |first1=Andrés Ricardo Restrepo |last2=Turbay |first2=Sandra |year=2015 |title=The silence of the Kogi in front of tourists |journal=Annals of Tourism Research |volume=52 |pages=44–59 |doi=10.1016/j.annals.2015.02.014 |url=https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/full/10.5555/20153199087 |url-access=subscription }} (Abstract only)</ref> They call the city "Teyuna" and believe it was the heart of a network of villages inhabited by their forebears, the [[Tairona]].