More-Than-2,000-Year-Old Circular Pyramid Discovered In Bolivia

MessageToEagle.com – As reported by the Bolivian Information Agency, the remains of the monument with a base diameter of about 180 meters and a height of almost 14 meters, were found in the department of Santa Cruz.

The structure is a circular pyramid of more than 2,000 years old and discovered in the municipality of Mairana, in the eastern Bolivian department of Santa Cruz, according to archaeologist Danilo Drakic, coordinator of the research team.

‘It’s not a pyramid made of stone. It is a small hill with three levels that was lowered and worked with retaining walls to keep the shape of a circular stepped pyramid.

The pyramid ‘is composed by three circular bodies, has five entrances, the main one is looking south and includes two hectares of floor space,” the archaeologist Drakic said.
He also said that its construction could be linked to Fuerte de Samaipata and other archaeological sites in Santa Cruz valleys, even to others located in the Bolivian Chaco region, an extensive area (over 100,000 square miles) of plains that spreads out over parts of northern Argentina, northwestern Paraguay, southwestern Brazil, and southeastern Bolivia.

The pyramid will be totally visible for late 2015, according to the archaeologist, who said the arrival of the rainy season in the region will force them to stop excavations.

Hypothetically the structure may have been built by Amazonian cultures 2,000 or 2,500 years ago, a parameter that has been applied to similar structures discovered in Peru and Mexico, according to Drakic.

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