Far from Spain, in the depths of the Ecuadorian Amazon, surrounded by a dense cover of forest and mystery, lies one of the most mysterious caves in the world: the Tayos Cave. Located in the Cordillera del Cóndor, red set of tunnels and galleries if it stretches for kilometers, something that has not yet been fully explored. As they say in exploration, there are still many places to explore the land below.
For three days in Quito by canoe, by the river that snakes through the forest, there is a discreet agujero that will take you to another world. A deep vertical tunnel stretches 60 meters to the entrance a black place for which one is not fit.
Entre aullidos de tayos, little night sleepers adapting to the darkness that hides from the night into the cave and the noisy liquid from some stream in the depths one of Ecuador’s greatest mysteries.
One of the most famous stories about La Cueva de los Tayos comes from Hungarian traveler Juan Moricz, who in 1969 claimed to have discovered its interior. a metal bookcase with metal bookmarks stored in an unknown language. According to his statement, these tablets contain information about an advanced civilization that inhabited the region before the birth of the indigenous Incas, that is, much earlier than the Spanish.
The technique and walls of the Cueva de los Tayos gallery are demasiado perfectos.
The mystery grew, and in 1976 a British expedition entered the cave, in which astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to fly to the moon, explored its depths. Although they had not encountered this previous historical library in an unknown language, they recognized it. Pasajes geometrically so perfect that only if they can be created by the hand of man and herramientas.
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The cave is located in Shuar territoryan indigenous tribe that lives between Peru and Ecuador, in the mountains. This area of the Amazon has not been deeply colonized in the last 40 years, but today the tribes maintain the site legislative autonomy. For those who know the cave, it is a sacred place where they have initiation rites.
On the other hand, some archaeologists who have studied the site believe that the cave may have been used by pre-Inca civilizations. observation or storage location. They also found remains of pottery and basic hardware, showing that there was human activity in them long before the Spanish tradition.
He was all looking for the interest of Catalan Miguel Garzón, who was there to capture the document and recreate the steps of the astronaut. “It is more spectacular than most caves. It has geological formations that give rise to speculation about its origin,” the filmmaker pointed out BBC for two times that entered in 2014.
In the depths live arañas and insects that have never seen the light of the sun.
“I like to say that in the background all human beings have exactly two dimensions: mystical and scientific vision“, continues the filmmaker, referring to the value of estalactitas, unique stalagmites, minerals and biodiversity that can be encountered today. Here live large arans, murcíelagas and insects adapted to the environment and cases unknown to man, who have ever witnessed the presence that Moricz swore lived in the cave.
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