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Date UncertainSite Name: El Porvenir
Country: Venezuela
NOTE: This site is 590.931 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Not Known (by us)
Nearest Town: Pregonero, Venezuela
Latitude: 8.016700N  Longitude: 71.764W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Not Known (by us) in Tachira State, Venezuela.
Stone pavement on a 30 degree angle.
Reina Duran (Venezuela's Tachira Museum) believes the structure may have been a religious site. The site is under threat from a hydroelectric project that threatens to flood the area.

Note: Archeologists may never solve the mysteries of a pre-Columbian indigenous site if Venezuela goes ahead with a plan to create a hydroelectric dam.
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El Bolívar Chacaro, estatua ecuestre del libertador Simón Bolívar ubicada en la población de Pregonero, en el estado #Táchira en #Venezuela que realza los valores regionalistas de esta población con el uso en su atuendo de una ruana y una chacara o bolso
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Mysteries of El Porvenir in Venezuela by bat400 on Sunday, 14 March 2010
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Thick slabs of stone are set at a 30-degree angle into the side of a hill, cloaked in a tangle of undergrowth. Known as El Porvenir, this pre-Columbian indigenous site in a remote part of western Venezuela has never been truly examined by archaeologists. And now it looks like it may never be.

The government plans to flood the valley in which El Porvenir lies to create a hydroelectric dam, wiping out the stones and leaving archaeologists unable to determine whether the site was built by a local indigenous tribe. True examination of the site has been limited due to the remote location and difficult working conditions .

Archaeologist Reina Duran, director of the Tachira Museum in the state capital San Cristobal, said she first visited El Porvenir in 1979 and worked on it each dry season for 10 years. “During those years when we came and went it was overgrown and full of mud again,†she said. “Every time we arrived at the site we had to begin the work again.â€

Today, only a small patch of the 25-meter-wide by 50-meter-high structure can be seen. It is flanked on both sides by streams that flow into the nearby Dorados River, or Golden River. Strong debate has prevailed, ever since a 1977 news story, over its origins and uses. Some biologists claimed it was a natural geological formation but that’s not a theory shared by Duran.

She believes it was a holy site for the local Pregonero tribe. Little is known about the indigenous tribes that lived in the region but most are believed to have arrived either from neighboring Colombia or from the Amazon in the south. Duran believes the evidence she has gathered so far indicates that the Pregoneros subsisted on agricuture and may be related to the still existing Arhuacos of Colombia. She believes they moved on to the Venezuelan "llanos," or cattle plains, after the arrival of the Spanish.

She says the cut of the stones appears to be man-made. The existence of smaller stones to fill in gaps among the paving slabs seems to support her theory.

Duran’s case was further strengthened by the discovery of a similar structure at the site of an indigenous village near the local town of Pregonero.

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