Santa Elena

Santa Elena is a metropolis in southwestern Ecuador, and is the capital of both the province and the canton of the equal name. Santa Elena, in the beginning known as Sumpa, is located on the Ecuadorian peninsula near the city of Guayaquil. it's miles regarded as the place of the most critical and pleasant documented archaeological web site inside the country, predominantly due to the invention of the enthusiasts of Sumpa. In 1977 Olaf Holm, the Director of the Anthropology Museum of the crucial bank of Ecuador, requested Karen E. Stothert to excavate this pre-ceramic site. Stothert and her group determined proof of Las Vegas, the first Ecuadorian culture.

Las Vegas flourished from 8800-4600 BC alongside the Ecuadorian coast. Archaeologists located severa artifacts and remains of houses and a garbage unload, however the biggest discovery was a cemetery of about 2 hundred humans. amongst those stays have been the bodies of the fanatics of Sumpa, or Los Amantes de Sumpa.