Saturday, October 6, 2012

Monumento National Guayabo

Today we visited the National Monument in Guayabo. It's the biggest archaeological side in Costa Rica. Most of the ruins are still covered with rain forest. Only about 10% is excavated.
1000 BC this zone was already populated. No one knows exactly why the population of 10 000 indígenas left the side about 1400 AD.


The houses they had weren't out of stone. Because of this today there are only the foundations left. Originally on each of the round stone foundations stood a wooden house in form of a round pyramid. Each pyramid had the same height as the diameter of it's foundation. So the biggest one had a height of 30m!


Also very famous are their above ground and underground aqueducts that still function today.






Papaya plant


Coffee plant

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