Landscapes That Remember: How Ancient Amazonian Societies Engineered Resilience in a Sea of Wetlands

The Hidden Cities Beneath the Water

From the air, Bolivia’s Lakes Rogaguado and Ginebra look like glimmers of silver set in a quilt of green. They sit in the Llanos de Moxos, one of the Amazon Basin’s most intricate mosaics of wetlands, gallery forests, and savannas. But what lies beneath these waters isn’t just mud and reeds—it’s memory.

In 2021, a multi…