El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/el-cono-the-mysterious-sacred-pyramid-hidden-deep-in-the-amazon-rainforest

57•Brajeshwar•9mo ago

Comments

cm2187•9mo ago

Not that remote, seems to be less than a 100km away from an airport, a short helicopter ride. Surely someone must have visited the site to figure out what's underneath the vegetation.

Jun8•9mo ago

I think it’s a protected area for the indigenous people and entry is prohibited.

pinkmuffinere•9mo ago

Can you land a helicopter in the middle of a dense rainforest? I suspect the terrain is more limiting than the distance

newsclues•9mo ago

Lower a crew on a rope to clear an LZ, or drop a bomb that does the work.

sokoloff•9mo ago

“We found this unexplored site; our next step is to bomb the shit out of the area nearby so we can land a helo there to check if it’s sacred to someone…”

newsclues•9mo ago

Do it away from the target and walk or clear road

CGMthrowaway•9mo ago

It is almost certain this is an extinct volcano but has never been confirmed due to limited access.

flancian•9mo ago

Pretty weird article. Just on the title alone:

- 'Mysterious': there's very little of substance in the article to advance the position that it is mysterious at all.

- 'Sacred': OK, I guess!

- 'Pyramid': "A fourth explanation — one for which there is no evidence — is that Cerro El Cono sits on the ruins of a pyramid built by ancient Indigenous tribes". So... no evidence then :)

- 'Hidden': "It rises steeply from the relatively flat jungle landscape of eastern Peru, making it visible from as far west as the Andes — 250 miles (400 kilometers) away — on a clear day."

CGMthrowaway•9mo ago

New to the internet?

Arkhadia•9mo ago

New to people on the internet gaining pointless cred for wasting time and typing up pointless critiques on pointless articles?

flancian•9mo ago

No cred gained here :) I was just surprised by the low quality of the article and there were no other comments by the time I got here so I thought I'd write this short critique to warn others, but I think it came across as a shallow dismissal so it didn't add much.

nartho•9mo ago

I'm no expert, but it seems like the bottom of the pyramid has what looks like natural rock formation, seems like that wouldn't be possible if it was man made ?

codeduck•9mo ago

That website is almost unreadable. So much crap littered around.

walrus01•9mo ago

It's your prototypical clickbait content farm website, complete with "disgusting" images of human skin rashes and similar.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90843502/the-chumbox-is-still-th...

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=taboola+c...

qwertox•9mo ago

You guys need to get yourself an ad blocker for protection against those diseases.

willvarfar•9mo ago

Seeing the comments here I just searched for an alternative article. This has a nice picture of the dormant volcanic cone called El Cono: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/01/sierra-del-divisor-nat...

davidw•9mo ago

> Research indicates the region’s forests contain 165 million metric tons of carbon, which is roughly equivalent to the amount of carbon dioxide emissions released every year by more than 127 million cars, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Ouch. Rain forests aren't much of a match for cars, it seems

willvarfar•9mo ago

This is one of the statistics that the current US administration will no longer be publishing nor providing access to historic records?

billiam•9mo ago

This site is becoming the Buzzfeed of tech. Better moderation please.

quirkot•9mo ago

Seems kinda of like a ... lonely mountain

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