{"id":876,"date":"2010-03-25T05:11:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T05:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/david-antelo\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T07:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:36:39","slug":"david-antelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/david-antelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Antelo Justiano, David"},"content":{"rendered":"

David<\/strong> Antelo Justiano (1971- )<\/strong>\u00a0is a Bolivian engineer who has identified a plain in the Beni region of Bolivia<\/a>, north-east of La Paz,\u00a0as that referred to by Plato as being adjacent to Atlantis. Antelo has posted a video on YouTube(a)<\/sup>,<\/strong> which offers a comparison of the topography of the region with Plato\u2019s description of Atlantis. It includes a network of pre-Columbian waterways and a \"Bolivia-map\"<\/a>circular feature, which might have been the city. Antelo gives the following co-ordinates for the acropolis<\/a>, 13\u00b0 09′ 35.6” S and 65\u00ba 33′ 36.5” W.<\/p>\n

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Allan & Delair <\/a>note that the Beni Basin is also home to features comparable with the Carolina Bays<\/a> of North America[<\/sup>014<\/sup><\/a>.<\/sup><\/strong>287]<\/sup>.\u00a0 In August 2013 the discovery was announced(d)<\/sup>\u00a0of middens in the Beni region that were dated to 8000 BC.<\/p>\n

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Jim Allen<\/a>, is the leading advocate of Atlantis in the Andes, specifically on the Altiplano<\/a> to the west of Lake Poopo. Allen refutes Antelo\u2019s claim at the end of a website(<\/sup><\/strong>b)<\/sup> dealing with Plato\u2019s Plain of Atlantis.<\/p>\n

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However, the following excerpt from one of Allen’s essays(f)<\/sup> seems contradictory – “<\/em>To the NW of the marsh exists the Beni and Mojos territories in Bolivia where recent archaeology reveals another unknown civilisation which dug canals connecting complete river systems and created a system of agriculture using raised plots extending throughout Bolivia into Amazonia.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Marshes are good places for the growing of reeds, excellent for constructing the giant reed ships which may have roamed the world’s oceans and this civilisation which existed on mounds in the Beni region has as yet no name, but as their lands are under water due to flooding for several months of the year, surely there can be no better name than people of <\/em>Atlantis”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Antelo published his thesis in 2008 in a book entitled La Conspiraci\u00f3n Atlante <\/em>(The Atlantis Conspiracy<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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In 2021, Antelo published Atlantida – Los Paraisos Perdidos: Civilizaci\u00f3n Hidr\u00e1ulica de los Antis (<\/em>Atlantis – Paradise Lost: Hydraulic Civilization of the Antis).<\/em>[1933<\/a>] <\/sup> A YouTube clip (in Spanish) offers further information(e)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rwAvqvI-ZQU<\/a>\u00a0(link broken)<\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200707234820\/http:\/\/www.atlantisbolivia.org\/plaincomparison.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/noatlantida.galeon.com\/Index.htm (Spanish) (offline October ’14)<\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250214222136\/http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/39269-ancient-trash-heaps-reveal-human-settlement.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(e)<\/sup> ATLANTIS MOXOS – YouTube<\/a>\u00a0 (Spanish)<\/p>\n

(f)<\/sup> http:\/\/www.geocities.ws\/myessays\/LocationofTarshish.htm<\/a>
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