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Multi-periodSite Name: La Ciudad Blanca Alternative Name: The White CityCountry: Honduras
NOTE: This site is 371.152 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Latitude: 15.200000N Longitude: 84.5W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Ancient Settlement in Gracias a Dios Department of Honduras. The popular name given to a collection of Isthmo-Columbian ruins discovered by LiDAR signatures in 2012.
This legendary city said to be located in the La Mosquitia area of northeastern Honduras was supposedly sought by the conquistador Cortez for fabled riches. The White City has variously been "found" (and then lost again) by people ranging from Charles Lindbergh and 1940's adventurer Theodore Morde. Morde describe the White City as the "City of the Monkey God" and although he brought back numerous artifacts for the Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian in New York City, he did not link any of them to the city of fabulous temple ruins that he said his local guides described.
The stories are so vague, various, and changeable that few archaeologists or ethnographers believe the legends to be connected to a specific pre-contact city. But artifact finds in this section of Honduras are frequently identified as being associated with La Ciudad Blanco.
In 2012 filmmakers Steve Elkins and Bill Benenson arranged for LiDAR flyovers of the area where la Ciudad Blanco was reputed to be located. William Carter of the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM), a research center for airborne scientific LiDAR mapping, interpreted some of the data as unexcavated pyramids and plazas. Áfrico Madrid, Honduran Minister of Interior, proclaimed the finds as THE legendary city, and nearly all news stories have identified the LiDAR signatures as proof of a find of the same city of gold sought by Cortez.
Archaeologist Christopher Fisher (Colorado State University) has joined the filmmakers in planned ground proofing of the site in 2013. The location seems destined to bear the popular name of the legend.
Note: the location given is only roughly general for this region of Honduras. It will be revised if the actual location of these sites are released in 2013.
Note: Ruins of Lost City May Lurk Deep in Honduras Rain Forest. See comment.
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