PAITITI EXIST

Since the arrival of the Spanish and their lust for treasure that sent them searching throughout their entire empire, many of them heard the rumors of the existence of a city of gold, “El Paititi”. Some of these same Spaniards and other foreigners have left us written records and chronicles full of stories of what they had heard; many of these came looking in our direction as was the case with geographer Commander Percy Harrison Faucett, Sarmiento de Gamboa, the Jesuit priests, Cieza de Leon, and many others.

Is it just by chance that all of these men lied to us or that they agreed upon the same stories about the existence of the city of gold?

Too many expeditions to count have traversed this part of the world in search of this grand city that, if found, would change the end of the story of the INCAN EMPIRE.

Proving the existence of Paititi in Peru is only a matter of time. If this is real, our Peru would become the most visited country in the world. Our Manu National Park and the Kcosñipata-Pilcopata area would become the launching point for all the expeditions and tourists.

I dedicate this segment to all my fellow believers in Paititi, to all my loyal friends in Lares, Amparaes, Pilcopata, and Calca, and to my indigenous friends from Manu with whom we have silently continued our expeditions in search of the great city over these last few years.

I further dedicate in a heartfelt way these lines to the one who is like both my father and great friend, the priest Juan Carlos Polentini Wester; he is a great scholar and extremely knowledgeable on this topic and has given his life to defend and prove the existence of this great jungle culture. I thank him for leaving his data published in his last book, Padre Otorongo (Jaguar Father). After twenty-five years of roaming the jungles and supporting this culture, confronting all the imposters and greedy people whom he has defeated by his humility and silent labor of so many years searching in Peru, this priest, still healthy and still desirous of continuing his support for all my expeditions, does not want to die before giving Peru this gold mine.

I also want to whole heartily share with all the web page visitors my expeditions into the jungle and the mountains, my results, my conclusions, and my desire to continue contributing a little to my country, Peru, that I love so much and that draws me into itself by its majestic countryside, ancestral cultures, and the friendly and warm quality of its people, downtrodden by poverty that rages across the forgotten areas that are isolated from the cities. To my friends from the uncountable indigenous communities, I want to say thank you for always taking me into your hearts and homes with openness and true friendship whenever I travel the Inca Trails from the mountains to the jungle



It was in the sixteenth century that the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in his Royal Commentaries and Sarmiento de Gamboa in his chronicles of Inca Tupac’s Empire described for us the conquest of the Antisuyo (eastern realm) and of how Yahuar Huaccac conquered the regions of Pilcopata, Tono, and Havisca. Furthermore, we read from Brother Bovo de Rivello that the Manu River is “very rich in gold, whose waters irrigate the hills of Paititi…” Paititi, a gold mine in the Antis (the root name for the Andes), once owned by the Incas before the arrival of the Spanish and the place where most of the existing Inca gold came from. Torrential rains have stripped the precious metal from the hills and dragged it through the rivers to the lower areas, which today they extract in Maldonado, Bolivia, or Brazil.

The main surviving Incas traveled to this area, fleeing both the bloody civil war that erupted between Atahualpa and his brother Huascar for the succession to the throne and then the subsequent execution of Atahualpa’s successors at the hands of the Spanish Conquistadors, Manco Inca y Túpac Amaru

PAITITI, FACT OR FICTION?

Our company is located within the Manu Biosphere Reserve, in the heart of the Kcosñipata Valley, where the most recent research projects into Paititi’s existence have taken place, from the Andes of Cusco to the Pantiacolla Mountains in the department of Madre de Dios. The Peruvian Paititi is the reality behind the legend of El Dorado. We are talking about a mysterious pre-Incan culture and the petroglyphs, agricultural terraces, trails that unite the mountains with the jungle, and citadels left as witnesses, of a gold mining civilization (the Antis) that lived in part of the Amazon River Basin centuries ago and that served as the last, definitive refuge of the Incas after the Spanish Conquest.

Maria del Carmen, the company manager, has organized the last few expeditions in search of “the Home of the Incas” thanks to the information provided by the priest, Polentini, an authority on the subject, whom she has been a disciple of and has accompanied his numerous research missions:

“We, the Peruvian people, and even less the government are not interested in doing serious research, but the European travelers come to Peru in search of information on the origin and the possible location of Paititi. They pay to be guided into the areas of the Manu National Park and the Pantiacolla Mountains. In addition, they do more research than we do, using our resources and the area’s indigenous tribes, as well as people like me, who have worked and guided so many visitors that come to our jungles and take back information to Europe for publication, information that we, the Peruvians, have shown them. Shamefully, there has never been a serious documentary that uses our own research about a Paititi expedition disseminated throughout Peru nor has there been a Peruvian company interested in making known to the population what we have in our country, mainly in the area of the Pantiacolla Mountains. In Peru, of course, it is still a legend, a myth about the city covered in gold…can we be wrong?”

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