Guayabo de Turrialba

Guayabo de Turrialba is an archeological web site positioned in Turrialba, inside the Central Volcanic Conservation Area within the Cartago Province, Costa Rica. It is covered within the Guayabo National Monument. The website online is of great archeological and cultural importance even though only a very small part of the metropolis has been exposed and studied.

The monument covers 540 acres and is located at the forested southern slope of Turrialba Volcano. The settlement became occupied among 1000 BC and 1400 AD and then it turned into mysteriously deserted. The motive is still unclear and the Spanish Conquistadors and settlers did no longer depart any document as to whether or not they observed the ruins. The pre-records and importance of the web site are nonetheless doubtful, but it appears to had been inhabited seeing that a thousand BC. Guayabo's improvement peaked c. 800 AD with about 10,000 humans residing there. Abandoned by using 1400 AD, Guayabo is believed to be an important cultural, political and religious center however specific details have not begun to be found.