El Infernito - Colombian Stone Henge - Astronomical Calendar and Fertility Temple
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Check out this amazing drone video of an ancient ruins site in South America known as the "Stonehenge of Colombia". El Infiernito is located near Villa de Leyva, a town in the Boyacá Department northeast of Bogota. The name ("Little Hell") derives from the Spanish explorers who conquered the area (although they didn't discover this site) who thought that there were diabolical pagan rituals afoot here. It's believed that the site was used for ritual bathing as well as rudimentary astronomical observation.
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El Infiernito (Spanish for "The Little Hell"), is a pre-Columbian archaeoastronomical site located on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the outskirts of Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia. It is composed of several earthworks surrounding a setting of menhirs (upright standing stones); several burial mounds are also present.[1] The site was a center of religious ceremonies and spiritual purification rites, and also served as a rudimentary astronomical observatory.[2] History[edit] The area was known by this name long before the discovery of the archaeological site. Spanish Conquistadors called it infiernito, or "little hell," because they thought it was diabolical and labeled it as a site of Pagan worship. The first description of the site was made in 1847 by the Colombian army geographer Joaquin Acosta, who reported 25 stone columns, half-buried in the Monquirá Valley.[3] The findings were studied by Alexander von Humboldt who believed that the site could be used to anticipate astronomical phenomena such as solstices and equinoxes, as indicated by the alignment of the stones with the sun and moon.[4] Music: Nomyn - Don't go.