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For today’s Geo Quiz, we’re heading to the furthest reaches of the world’s biggest forest… in search of a lost city. The Amazon rainforest covers almost a billion and a half acres of South America. The forest is dense and inhospitable to humans and anthropologists long thought only small, simple societies lived there. But rumors have persisted for centuries of long-lost great civilizations, deep in the Amazon.The World’s Marina Giovannelli reports.
Researchers think they may have found the remnants of one.
They’ve discovered a vast network of earthworks… or geoglyphs… in a stretch of the Amazon in far western Brazil, near Peru and Bolivia.
We’re looking for the name of the Brazilian state where the ancient formations were found.
Geo Answer:
For today’s Geo Quiz we asked you to name a state in western Brazil.
It borders Peru and Bolivia… and is mostly covered by the Amazon rainforest.
The answer is Acre.
And it’s where researchers have found new evidence of an ancient culture.
Here’s more from The World’s Marina Giovannelli:
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Thanks very much for posting this on your site. I heard some of this on the radio today, but I am hearing impaired, I am grateful to you for posting it so quickly. Very interesting!