2012-10 Fundación Escuela Sintana y Tierra Negra Obtains Five Hectares Beside the Buritaca River.
Thanks to donations from the Sunrise Rotary Club of St. Augustine, Florida, Fundación Escuela Sintana y Tierra Negra has obtained five hectares beside the Buritaca River, downstream from Teyuna (Cuidad Perdida or the Lost City). Uncovered in the 1970’s by tomb robbers looking for gold, by some estimations at one time it housed up to 8000 people. It is thought that this site was occupied as early as 650 AD. That would make it about 800 years older than Machu Picchu.
The Buritaca River is sacred for the native people of the Sierra. In the watershed of this important river, which flows from the core of the Sierra down to the blue Caribbean, Fundación Escuela Sintana y Tierra Negra is creating a space to preserve memory of traditions and belief, and to be able to work with Mother Earth on both spiritual and physical levels.
Thanks to donations from the Sunrise Rotary Club of St. Augustine, Florida, Fundación Escuela Sintana y Tierra Negra has obtained five hectares beside the Buritaca River, downstream from Teyuna (Cuidad Perdida or the Lost City). Uncovered in the 1970’s by tomb robbers looking for gold, by some estimations at one time it housed up to 8000 people. It is thought that this site was occupied as early as 650 AD. That would make it about 800 years older than Machu Picchu.
The Buritaca River is sacred for the native people of the Sierra. In the watershed of this important river, which flows from the core of the Sierra down to the blue Caribbean, Fundación Escuela Sintana y Tierra Negra is creating a space to preserve memory of traditions and belief, and to be able to work with Mother Earth on both spiritual and physical levels.