Real Eldorado can be called Tiahuanaco - the Inca Empire. It is estimated that during the reign of them were extracted from mines and mines more than 50 thousand tonnes of gold!

Empire of the precious metal

The Incas were decorated with gold Sun temples, palaces of the rulers, their own houses were made of it utensils, ornaments and figurines. Even the doors of buildings in Cusco, the capital of the Empire - framed in gold frames. The ruler was the Golden garden, where everything was made of precious metal - flowers, plants, butterflies, birds, Lama, turtles, lizards and snakes. Every year from all parts of the Empire in Cusco received 15 thousand arrobas gold (1 arroba - 11.4kg).

When in 1532, the Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro arrived in Peru, they found the enormously rich Empire, gold reserve which exceeded the wild dreams of the Spaniards.

By the time Europeans arrived in Tiahuanaco just ended the civil war. Atahualpa, the ruler of the Kingdom of the whale, who led the struggle for the throne against his brother Huascar, won. The new ruler of the Incas was the army in a quarter of a million soldiers, and a Spanish - only 177 people. Not daring to enter into open conflict with the natives, Pizarro had to be cunning. Agreeing to meet with the Governor of the Incas, the Spaniards laid an ambush. They broke retinue Atahualpa, took him prisoner, and demanded crazy ransom.

Pizarro has announced that it will release Atahualpa if he will fill with gold and silver, all four of the room in which he was held, and in one room of 70 cubic metres was to be only the gold, two silver, and the fourth was necessary to fill... diamonds!
Incas agreed.

Atahualpa he gave orders to his neighbors, and from all over the country reached caravans with precious metal.

Among delivered gold products were true works of art - the Golden fountains, statues Lam life-size vessels in the form of eagles. The great Inca fulfilled his promise: the prison has been completed, the Spaniards received about 5.5 tons of gold and about 12 tons of silver!

However insidious invaders, having received such treasures Atahualpa't let go - they were executed ruler of the Inca, accusing him of capture of a throne, idolatry and polygamy.

Lace with "cipher"

It is known that before his execution Atahualpa was able to convey his close the message. It was rather unusual, because the writing system of the Incas was founded at the pile was the cord, to which was tied colorful laces, location and number of nodes on them and carried a variety of info. Such a letter and handed Atahualpa, it was tied thirteen knots, in addition to them, to the cord he tied a bar of gold. Believe that this message was encrypted to hide the treasure of the Incas in some secret place.

People followed out his order, and gold has completely disappeared from all churches, no one remained in the hands of even a handful of silver.

And while the Spaniards rushed in search of the yellow metal, 10 000 of the Incas, bent under the weight of his burden, carried to the North of the treasures that the leader has ordered to hide from the invaders. They hoped that all the events in their country - temporary, we will return to their land, will build new churches to replace those that were destroyed by the Spaniards, and only wanted to hide in the mountains of his wealth, then to use them.

The question is: how much gold disappeared? If you multiply ten thousand one hundred pounds - standard weight of the burden Indian-porter, you get a staggering numbers: four hundred tons of the precious metal! It is not surprising that these treasures do not give rest to all mankind.

Unconfirmed version

But where Incas hid the gold? That meant thirteen knots at the pile? It still remains a mystery. Perhaps they pointed out the spot where I was supposed to carry the treasures. What is the gold of the Incas did exist, not like the legend, too much reliable information about him was passed from generation to generation.

Some scientists suggest that their treasures Incas could take out in the Peruvian jungle, where the legendary city of Paititi.

In 1925 look lost in the Selva the city decided six members of the Jesuit order. They hired porters and guides, stocked with all the necessary and drove off. However, on the way they were attacked by Indians and uninvited guests one by one they fell from arrows, poisoned by curare.

However, one conductor managed to avoid death, and he headlong rushed into the bushes. When the fugitive stopped to take a breath, then suddenly discovered that stands in the middle of a street. Advancing further, the guide Sanchez went to the square where stood the statue in human growth, and they were cast from the yellow metal.

Long time he gazed at the wonderful statues, and then cut off the little finger of one of them. Only on the slope years Sanchez showed a gold pinky scientist Ordonez - as a sign of special favor, and as proof that the Golden city of Paititi there.

There is another interesting suggestion that their gold Incas hid near the crater of an active volcano Sangay.

This version was expressed by Dr. Kurt von Ritter in 1961.

Shortly before this, the scientist began to study consistently ancient roads and trails, running North of Cuzco, the capital of the state, where was executed Atahualpa.

One of these paths, quaint embraced the foot of the Andes, rushed to the Sangay volcano. Moving to the ways of the Incas, Ritter suddenly discovered that passed on the road twelve clearly expressed in the landscape of snow-capped peaks. Sangay was... thirteenth!

Ritter suggested that treasures might be hidden somewhere near the volcano, as Sangay was a Holy mountain from the Indians. The researcher went to the volcano, the local Indians, he found a small Golden statuette, covered with a crust of lava, she was found on the slopes of the volcano children. In addition, this finds it managed to find a skull with traces of trepanation - such operations, famous for the Incas.

Message Kurt von Ritter about these findings have caused the real gold rush, but the treasures of the Incas never found.

If they actually hidden in the immediate vicinity of the volcano, now covered with a thick layer of ash and lava. To seek their danger: toxic gas emissions has led to death of several hunters.
According to other sources, under the ground in the mountains have deep tunnel, or even a network of tunnels, and Incas there hid his treasures. Some researchers believe that the Incas managed to send their treasures to the North of the continent and to bury them on one of the small Islands in the Caribbean sea.
The geography of search last possible refuge of notorious four hundred tons state Tiahuanaco is quite wide - from the jungles of Venezuela and to the depths of lake Titicaca, from the dread of volcanoes in Ecuador and to the green hell of the Amazon.

Hunters do not leave the hope to find a priceless wealth. But while the results of their activities deplorable is not found in either the cache or its fragments, some throwing light on the ancient legend about the treasure of the Indians.

Wealth Indians "stolen" the Nazis?

Professor Damman of Hutysko University, devoted to the study of the history of the Incas all his life, went further.

According to him, the Incan patriots were unloaded their Golden burden not only on... Earth in Antarctica Ellsworth, allegedly well-known Indian mariners since time immemorial! About that repeatedly also insisted and famous American polar researcher, Admiral Richard Byrd, as saying that a part of these treasures was bracketed by the Germans during the 1st Antarctic expedition in the spring of 1939 and deported to the Reich. About the fate of the other, he was silent, but all known incomprehensible to Americans to the Land of Ellsworth in the postwar years and the persistent search of some "New Swabia" - base, allegedly orchestrated by the Nazis in 1940 and still has not found...